Aliens
Robert Cohen
They were naked when they came out of the water. Their skin glowed dully in the haze of dawn. We watched them stagger across the sand, one by one, like the last finishers in some ghostly marathon.
“Uh-oh,” Kai said. “Company.”
 About ROBERT COHEN Robert Cohen is the author of three novels, including, most recently, Inspired Sleep (Scribner, 2001), and a collection of stories, The Varieties of Romantic Experience (Scribner, 2002). He has been awarded a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers Award, the Ribalow Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. His stories have been published widely in Harper’s, GQ, Paris Review, and Ploughshares. He teaches at Middlebury College in Vermont. |
They were naked when they came out of the water. Their skin glowed dully in the haze of dawn. We watched them stagger across the sand, one by one, like the last finishers in some ghostly marathon. “Uh-oh,” Kai said. “Company.” |
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