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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Stop me if you've heard this one before. An alien goes into a store, walks up to the clerk, and asks to buy some fruit. It makes the request again and again, each time claiming to speak in a different terrestrial language. Except, the languages are all English, and the kinds of fruit the alien seems to want change with every repetition. And one more thing, it's a hardware store!

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Aliens and A.I.s, 2005
Fictionwise Release Date: January 2007

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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [131 KB], eReader (PDB) [18 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [4 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [4 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [68 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [73 KB], hiebook (KML) [40 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [29 KB], iSilo (PDB) [3 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [4 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [32 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [10 KB]
Words: 1048
Reading time: 2-4 min.
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Nathan glanced up at the clock when the alien entered his shop. It was just past noon, too early for aliens. He sighed. It was going to be one of those days.

Within seconds of its arrival, the alien tightly pulled in its viscous blue facial tentacles to create the appearance of a handlebar moustache, a slimy blue moustache at that. It shuffled up to the front of the shop on dozens of tiptoes and came to rest with its elbows on the counter, dropping a foot in height in the process.

"Good day," said the alien in warm rounded tones and a slight New England accent.