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all.”
    I’m bonding it to him at dusk unless you tell me otherwise.
    “That thing will kill anyone who gets near him.”
    Anyone of yours.
    “It’ll be on their news.”
    It shrugged its shoulders and Felix wanted nothing more than to choke it. He even went so far as to try and move his arms, but the air bound them like steel.
    “You’re going to regret this,” Felix said, well aware of how foolish he sounded.
    Someone is. I’m not sure if it will be me or not.
    The door clicked behind him and Felix remained immobile. Was the little shit just leaving him like this? Was it walking around outside? Where people could see it?
    His muscles relaxed like a loosening bowel, and he dropped halfway to the floor before recovering his balance. He ran to the door and threw it open; the little alien was already gone. There wasn’t anyone in the parking lot that would have seen him. Did he plan this, or did he take a chance? Of course he planned it. You couldn’t be here, in this strange land, without planning. You’d wind up captured.
    He shook out his arms, muscles cramping from the strain of being immobilized. Sitting on the couch, Felix pulled his cell phone out of his pocket. Goodbye, quiet night at home.

3

    “You didn’t hear nothing,” Rich shouted.
    TJ blinked at him, so Rich repeated himself, louder this time.
    Rich lived in a nice neighborhood, a new housing development, and TJ knew too much more of this yelling would involve the police. Granted, Rich would talk them down and they’d leave, but the embarrassment would make him even more pissed off than he already was.
    “I didn’t hear nothing,” TJ said, hoping to pacify him. The lights behind the kitchen window clicked on behind nice curtains, and TJ could see Maria there, peering into the night. TJ raised a hand to wave, but Rich interpreted this as TJ’s not paying attention.
    “Slade is a lying motherfucker.”
    “He is. Absolutely.” TJ could do nothing but agree. He was good at it, it served him well.
    “And nothing he said is true.” Rich punctuated this with a sausage finger jabbed at TJ’s chest.
    “Nothing,” TJ echoed.
    TJ’s agreement seemed to only anger Rich more. He eyed his Suzuki, parked on Rich’s driveway, and wondered if he could go soon.
    “I mean nothing he said is true.”
    This conversation started as they left Val’s trailer, at first Rich roared about his hatred for Val, TJ piping in when it seemed necessary. Rich pulled out some road sodas, they drank, nothing outside the ordinary, but Rich turned his anger towards TJ now. This didn’t usually happen, and getting away was the only respite.
    “I gotta run, man,” TJ said, staring at the neat asphalt of the driveway.
    Rich held him by the collar of his Fox jacket before he could raise his eyes. Bloodshot and brown-eyed, Rich glared at him from inches away. TJ wondered, in a quiet little place in the back of his mind, how Rich could do this and still be a cop.
    “I don’t think you understand me.”
    “I do, I do,” TJ said, a whine creeping into his voice. He shot his eyes to the left. Maria still watched from the window. TJ couldn’t imagine being married to someone so angry. She’d calmed him down, though. He was better than he used to be. You gotta keep looking on the bright side.
    “Just go,” Rich said, releasing him and shoving him so he almost lost his balance.
    “G’night, Rich. I’ll see ya tomorrow.”
    Rich made an angry bear sound and turned away, entering his cookie cutter house and giving the door a window-rattling slam. Maria’s face disappeared, and TJ fumbled his bike key out of his pocket.
    Kate.
    Maybe things weren’t so great with her, but he could hope. TJ turned his bike out of town, towards Kate and Val. Val was skinny, and mean, and always thought he was smarter and more clever than everyone else. He wasn’t funny. He wouldn’t be funny when TJ broke his nose. Kate needed the right kind of rescuing, that’s all.
    The ride relaxed