The Foundlings

by Glen L. Bledsoe 

In 1648 two young girls were found wandering the properties of Sir Gordon Yarborough. Their clothes were in rags. They were cold, hungry and frightened. Sir Gordon and his wife were childless and took them into their home and raised them as their own. At first the girls could not speak, but learned English quickly. Once they gained full vocabulary they told stories of where they were from. A world filled with machines: flying machines, talking machines. Machines that showed moving pictures on slabs of glass. Machines that made music. No one believed their stories at the time, but the girls were presented to the upper class by their "father" as a kind of entertainment. Today we know just how silly those stories really were.
 

The Decoy

 

by Glen L. Bledsoe 

Real aliens do not appears as lights in the sky. What would be the point? Instead they leave life-like leggy female decoys in public parks to attract male members of our species. Once captured the aliens (intent on improving their gastroenterological skills) probe males using the port of entry where the sun don't shine.

"Oh, do bring his shoe back, father. I believe he means to propose."

by Glen L. Bledsoe 

In Jane Austin's "Seafaring Nation" unfinished juvenile novel written through medium Madame Rosa Lucille's father Maior Corcoran tries desperately to marry off his daughter. At the high point of the novel the Major steals young one-handed Captain Bud Robbins shoe and refuses to return it until he proposes to his daughter.