Case of the Alien Bitch Queen, Part 2 (1029 hits)
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Submitted by Circe <fickle.muse.at.gmail.com> (View user info) at 2005-05-13 10:08:35 EDT
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Shit.
Why that case? I have enough money to keep me going for about six months at any given point. I save like a Protestant and I do this so I DON'T have to take the messy cases that sometimes present themselves. And it doesn't get a whole lot messier than "My wife is the intended bride of an alien overlord."
I don't know why I took the case, really. Believe me, I've asked myself a thousand times since the shit hit the fan out there in the desert, but the answer always comes up murky. It wasn't that I liked the client, Josh Trent. He struck me as a dyed in the wool asshole, to be honst. And I don't have any interest in the alien side of the case - I never watched the X-files, and while I believe the truth is out there, "out there" is any seedy motel I can put under surveillance and "the truth" is a series of black and white snapshots of a housewife taking it from three well-known political figures.
But without really knowing why, I found myself driving across Nevada in the middle of the night, sticky with sweat that the somewhat questionable airconditiong of my battered Outback did nothing to assuage, my overnight bag in the backseat, wondering what a Colorado girl was doing in the Black Rock Desert.
Hunting aliens. Right.
I think it was that woman's face that decided me. Her youthful, tomboyish smile, her clever eyes. She looked like a woman who has it all together, and my natural curiosity needed me to find out what would draw a woman like that out here, to surrender herself to some new breed of lunatics, and forget her life of plenty.
That cynical, wordly, motel-surveilling part of me had decided it must be the attraction of donating her half of her less-than-adoring husband's money to a lost cause. But the rest of me wondered if maybe she actually believed in what she was doing.
And an even smaller part wondered if I would, too, by the end of all this.
I could see the faint glow of lights up ahead. There was nothing out here but the commune - or, as the inhabitants themselves referred to it, "American Believers & Intellectuals Glorious Meeting place for Extraterrestrial Sentient Societies" (ABIGMESS for short. I don't suppose they really thought that one through).
I took a deep breath and smoothed my hair, hoping I looked enough like a starry eyed ET groupie to pass muster. I stopped my car on the desert hardpan in front of the Centre and switched off the ignition. "Diesel & Dust" died with it and I stepped out of the car, waving in what I hoped was a cheerful, "One of the gang" way to the men approaching me. Yeah, guys. Hi, good to see you. I'm a nutcase too, don't worry.
Shit.
(To be continued)
User Reviews
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-05-23 15:50:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Because you deserve some +2s for the Uberdirectory too.
Submitted by LadyPlural (user info) at 2005-05-16 10:00:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Ahhhhhh. You rock so hard it's a wonder your face doesn't fall off.
Submitted by mrwolf (user info) at 2005-05-16 03:21:20 EDT (#)
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Pretty words.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2005-05-13 23:52:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Much too short!
Are you going to pull a Snark and wait a week before posting the next one?
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-05-13 18:21:48 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Yay. My brain is leaking through my ears, otherwise I might be able to muster some decent criticism. Then again, you rock pretty hard, so maybe not.
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2005-05-13 12:13:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
cool
Submitted by jumpinjellyfish (user info) at 2005-05-13 10:57:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Oh yeah, before I forget here's another +2 for part 1!
Submitted by jumpinjellyfish (user info) at 2005-05-13 10:56:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Why can't I write like this.
Oh yeah...because I suck.
But you don't!
Submitted by Ainkara (user info) at 2005-05-13 10:47:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
ABIGMESS. Hahahah.... Took me a few seconds to get that. God I'm slow tonight....
Submitted by knucklesnelson (user info) at 2005-05-13 10:46:06 EDT (#)
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Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2005-05-13 10:35:16 EDT (#)
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This actually desesreved this +2. Deserved.
Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2005-05-13 10:25:13 EDT (#)
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Alien bitch queen! Ahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahum.
Submitted by Coyote (user info) at 2005-05-13 10:12:14 EDT (#)
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Her cover will be blown instantly if they catch her spelling centre like a frenchman that way!
Just kidding, this is awesome. Nevada spooks me. I have no desire to be there ever again.