Kevin Hosey's "IT!" (flash fiction, first contact, free)

A humorous variation of one of the stories from A E van Vogt's Ezwal series: a human spaceship "had recently passed through a dense cloud of meteorite fragments", & seems to have somehow picked up a massive alien monster who's now terrorizing the crew. Only it's not really terrorizing, as the captain will discover to his amusement...

Fact sheet.

First published: 365tomorrows, 3 December 2009.
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Rating: B.