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I lifted my hands and saw larger organisms all over them. I looked at my stomach and my legs, where more of the ruby-red eyes of the organisms greeted me. They covered my entire body. Dylan screamed and I reached out and grabbed him. He smiled and wrapped his arms around me. I hesitated for a moment but then reciprocated. Everything felt too real to be a dream. I could feel the chill in the air, and a sweet cinnamon smell filled my nose. I’d always wondered whether Shriniks had the same sense of smell we had, and now I had my answer. I paused and considered my words. I wasn’t using
we
in the right manner. Right at that moment, I accepted the facts. I wasn’t human. I never had been. The humans had always been the aliens, and my people were the Shriniks. But humans also gave me all my memories, and that counted for so much.
I held Dylan in front of me and stared at him. For the first time, I realized that my species was actually a beautiful race. Dylan’s protruding eyes no longer looked ghastly but warm and full of love. I stopped seeing his snout as one resembling a lizard’s. I studied him for a little while longer before looking all around me once again. Wherever this was, my baby and I were together, and that was all that mattered.
The End
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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank all of my amazing readers for sharing their thoughts with me. The more I write, the more I feel my identity is coming through, and this is because of all of you. I would like to thank Erin Wilcox for her professionalism and honesty. I am truly blessed to keep working with such talented editors.
I want to also thank my brothers, Obi and Ezem, for their continued support. My mother, Mabel, continues to be my biggest fan and also my biggest critic, which is proving to be a winning combination.
I would like to thank Daniel Yeager for a cover design that I felt captured the essence of the novel. I would also like to thank the fantastic staff at The Editorial Department, including Chris Fisher, Jane Ryder, Liz Felix, Doug Wagner and Beth Jusino. They continue to make my writing so much more fun.
MARVIN AMAZON is a widely-published, Nigerian-born author who currently lives and writes in Essex, England. He credits the library across the street from his childhood home in Battersea, southwest London, with opening his eyes to the engrossing worlds of speculative fiction. In addition to
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