Originally published in Planet Magazine No. 36 (December 2002). Illustration: “Kopusure” by Wilhelm Steiner After I gave birth, my tummy ached.I spat up ectoplasmic gas.I told the nurse to place my new sonon a basket of plastic Easter grass.I peeled back his crystalla,looked into his wet, black eyes.Feathers scattered to the floor as he said,"What's … Continue reading Alien Tot, by Ellen Lindquist →