AngelTigress03

“A heated rock in every home!”
    The crowd gave a few uncertain claps.
    “Free locusts for every school!”
    Confused muttering. An aide took this opportunity to step up and whisper something in the Prime Minister’s ear.
    The Prime Minister gave a quick nod in response. “Something something hardworking families!”
    Enthusiastic cheers.
    Doug squinted at the TV. “I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s something odd about this guy...”
    “Seriously?” Eugene put down his copy of UFO Afficionado. “You’ve only just noticed? He’s a reptilian alien in a latex human suit. Everyone knows that.”
    “Really?”
    “Well,” Eugene shrugged. “Everyone on the intern

There lived a king on a distant planet who treasured two things above all else: his three children, and a tree which bore fruit of gold.
It happened one night that a thief came and stole a fruit from the golden tree, unseen by the palace guards. The king, fearing as much for his life and that of his children as for his precious fruit, proclaimed that the thief must be caught at once: and whosoever brought them before him would win his planet’s throne.
The king’s sons were eager to please him, and all the more eager for the promise of kingship. They guarded the golden tree by turns: but each night the weight of sleep closed their eyes at last, and each night the thief came and went without any trace of their passing. At last the youngest prince cut a wound into his arm and rubbed it with salt, and the pain of it kept his eyes open through the night: and so, at last, he saw who it was that came to steal his father’s fruit.
But the thief, he saw, was not human. It had wi