The Other Day the Saucers Came
That day, the saucers landed. / Hundreds of them, glittering, like stars broken free / Spiraling down, / Where we met them.
Karen Brenchley’s SF stories have appeared in various anthologies including Gears and Levers 2, and will appear in the Nov/Dec ’21 ParSec Magazine and an upcoming Daily Science Fiction. She is a second degree black belt in aikido, was featured in a Washington Post article about testing autonomous cars, and founded the long-running San Francisco reading series SF in SF with Terry Bisson. She lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Chaz Brenchley, two elderly British cats and an American turtle named Dymphna.
That day, the saucers landed. / Hundreds of them, glittering, like stars broken free / Spiraling down, / Where we met them.