You are listening to the third story for the month of May 2025, issue 224.

Our story is titled, Wee, the Fleet, and is by Alex T. Singer.

And I'm your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

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Our author, Alex T. Singer, lives in Coastal Connecticut with her wife, daughter, and more sci-fi fantasy novels than she can count. She is the author of the graphic novel, Mirreverse, Bell, by Viz Media. Her short stories have appeared in Luna

Station Quarterly, Apparition Literature, GGI, and Pseud. Her short story, nothing but the gods

on their backs, was a finalist in the 2004 WSFA Small Press Award category

for short fiction. So, my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

We watched the stranger fall from the sky. Our daughters sent us frantic signals as they tracked

her burning trail.

She crashed on the beaches by the deeper ocean.

Her once beautiful white and silver carapace blackened and bent.

Her lights flashed once, desperately, then went still.

She smoked in the sands.

The waves crashed around her dead eyes.

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