After a long flight, aliens sought refuge on Earth, sharing their tragic story of fleeing a devastating cleansing operation on their home planet, and expressing their need for rest and power to operate their translator. Upon arriving at a beautiful beach where their crashed ship leaked colorful fluids, most people chose to ignore the aliens' plight and instead left small offerings, believing it was the responsibility of their government to help.
The flight had indeed been long. One African Francophone newspaper had thought to interview the aliens, who explained in deteriorating French how their universal translator worked, how they had fled a cleansing operation in their star system, how they had watched their home planet heated to sterility and stripped of its atmosphere, how they had set course for a likely-looking planet in the Gould Belt, how they wanted nothing but peace, and please, they were exhausted, could they have a place to sleep and a power source for their translator?
29 When we slid on our sandals and stepped onto the dazzling beach, which long ago, before the garbage tides, was what many beaches looked like, we saw the crashed ship again, substantiation of the previous night’s fever dream. It leached rainbow fluids onto the sand.
30 Dark shapes huddled under its sawn-off lid.
31 Most of us averted our eyes from that picture of unmitigated misery and admired instead the gemlike sky, the seabirds squalling over the creamy surf, the parasols propped like mushrooms along the shore. One or two of us edged close to the wreck and dropped small somethings — a beach towel, a bucket hat, a bag of chips, a half-full margarita in its salted glass — then scuttled away. This was no longer our problem; it belonged to our governors, our senators, our heads of state. Surely they and their moneyed friends would assist these wretched creatures.
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