
"Kin" by Bruce McAllister
LeVar Burton Reads
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The Man Name Ortega Mambay
The man named ortega mambay stepped from the bullet elevator to the roof of the federal building. He was wearing his new triple weave gauze jacket in the pattern called summer shimmer, handsom, odorless, waterproof and cool. As he reached the pilot's side and the little door there, a shadow separated itself from the greater shadow cast by the craft. And he nearly screamed again. The figure was tall, and at first he er was a costume, a joke played by a colleague, nothing worse. But as the figure stepped into the fading light, he saw what it was: an alien. 200 is not enough for a kill, the alien said, and was gone
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