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Questions Posed in an Alien Tongue by Wendy Nikel
Science Fiction melancholy sci-fi Alien outer space
“Now that you are matured, we'd like you to examine the wreckage. To help us learn of your people. To understand who they are and why they came.”
At age five, she survived a crash landing on an alien planet. At age twenty, she's charged with learning what brought her ship here. But the answers may permanently change her relationship with her keepers—or are they her captors?
Wendy Nikel, tea aficionado and flash fiction expert, has published dozens of short stories in venues such as Nature Futures, Daily Science Fiction, and Flash Fiction Online. Her time travel novella, THE CONTINUUM, is now available from World Weaver Press.
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