Today on The Grave Talks, we continue our conversation with author Tui Snyder, about six feet under Texas.

One of them that really did catch my eye, though, was in Aurora, Texas, the space alien grave.

That kind of caught my eye.

Oh, really?

Yes.

You don't have a space alien?

No.

I've never seen one.

Now I need to go to Aurora, Texas to go there.

You do.

And it is the funniest thing.

So when people hear I'm a writer, a lot of times the first thing they say is like, oh, you're a writer?

Oh, you know what you really should write about?

And then they proceed to tell me, I hate to say, but 90% of the time it's something kind of boring.

You know, at the time, my aunt thought of salamander or something.

I'm like, really, if you're that excited about it, I think you should write it.

I don't really, that's not my story to tell. But I moved to Texas in 2009. And, you know, shortly,

I hadn't been here that long. And I was at some sort of, you know, potluck or something or

barbecue with a group of people. Someone I just was chatting with came up and said, oh, I hear

you're a writer. I said, yeah. He goes, well, you ought to

write about that little alien that they buried up the road a piece. I'm like, what, what? I thought

spat out my, you know, whatever I was eating. I say again, he goes, yeah, they buried an alien

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