Excerpt:
They might never have been noticed had they not landed in the garden of one Andrew Bleighstone.
He was the type that could sit for hours staring at motes of dust in a beam of sunlight. He found the
slightest deviation from the norm to be fascinating.
On this saturday afternoon, Bleighstone was removing the previous winter's crop of rocks
from his garden in preparation to plant petunias. Just as he was about to trowel around
a particularly large rock, he noticed the dirt surrounding it reflected somewhat more
light than it ought. Bleighstone reached for the magnifying glass and index card he kept
in his pocket for just such an occasion.
Discussion
My first sale, and it would be my last for two years.
This story started with questioning why all aliens seem to be human sized. I created
extremely small aliens and put them into a funny situation, where a gardner could
simply kill them at his whim.
Bleighstone just wants to plant his petunias, and this small cluster of alien spacecraft
are simply in the way. Eventually, the sides must compromise.