The alien invasion of Earth has begun. But the beachhead doesn't look like Iwo Jima. It's Laurel, blonde, blue-eyed and pregnant - but with what?Parasitism is an insidious thing!A short story from Brenda W. Clough, author of Mishbil, The Realm Beneath, The Name of the Sun, An Impossumble Summer, How Like a God, and Revise the World.