The Alien. United States

J. Christopher King

When I was 20 years old, when I lived in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, sometimes there was a hum and, oddly enough, the winter air rushed in almost as if part of the wall had disappeared. When I first saw the mantis, I was confused because some gray ones are tall, but mantises are even taller with a different body structure. At first I thought of them as grasshoppers. They have a different form of telepathic content.

The way you get telepathy from gray is more line-by-line, like when you receive a telegram. Mantis creatures talk much more elegantly. This creature was very interested in science and space. He criticized us using fire and smoke to leave the planet, and he strongly advocated a device that seemed to use plasma.