STORY STARTER
Submitted by Katelyn Jane
A life force from another planet has just translated the first piece of human writing. Write a story about what they discovered.
Hardly Any Protein
An extraterrestrial sifts through a
single human’s nightstand. Without knowledge of what anything actually means, it pulls out a condom, loose AAA batteries, dusty wallet-sized photographs curling at the edges. It pulls out an ink covered piece of paper that it hopes is dipped in unrepentant emotion, but later finds out it was a grocery list with hardly any protein.