The Terrifying Mystery of the Fear Plague
Scott Slemmons
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(Hand-Picked Words, Jan. 16, 2014)
It all started on my way to a ski trip in Colorado, when I suffered a small travel disruption. Simply put, I was abducted by a UFO. And after that, I kicked a Perseidian officer of the Intergalactic Defense Patrol in his testicular cluster. Well, honestly, that's what I always felt one should do when abducted by aliens. I prefer to arrange for my own probing, thank you very much. That little act of self-defense almost got me kicked off the ship somewhere around lunar orbit. It's a good thing no one is able to resist my natural charm and charisma. It turns out I had the perfect mixture of compassion, courage, and intelligence that the IDP looks for in new patrol officers, and they'd been considering inducting an Earthling into the organization for years. With a series of cyborg implants, I joined the metahuman superheroes fighting crime back at home. But now something REALLY weird is going on. The city is screaming....