Hungry? by Helen Louise Caroll

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In a futuristic world, Leon is a manager of one of the Earth station of the Tube, the highway that allows Aliens to cross the universe. It's not a bad job, but Leon is most of the time alone, and he can't prevent himself to fantasize on a particular alien, Endil. Endil is almost like an human, if not for his special tattoo, a symbiotic parasite who lives embedded in his torso. Leon can't help himself to imagine what Endil can do with that tattoo, since there are stories around.

Anyway Leon must stop to think since it's forbidden for a station manager to familiarize with Aliens, let alone become intimate. Usually Endil passes through the station without second thoughts on Leon, but this time he seems to have a personal purpose.

Can't say much more on this story, since it's less than 20 pages long, and there is not much development on the characters. We know something on Leon, on his desires and dreams, but nothing about Endil. The story is interesting, the tattoo element quite original, above all for the use that Endil did of that tattoo.

I had in the past the chance to read other work by Helen Louise-Carroll, and they were both original and interesting, but always too short.

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Amazon Kindle: Hungry?
Publisher: Amber Quill Press, LLC (February 16, 2009)

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