For years, Ken's fellow airline pilots whispered stories of strange things in the skies when no one else was listening. He never believed their stories.
He never thought aliens might be real.
Two weeks ago, when Ken's copilot saw something pacing the plane, Ken laughed it off. But now, 40 minutes left on a long haul from England, San Francisco's panicked air-traffic control demands they report unidentified flying objects right now.
Ken can't laugh off aliens any more. Not when air traffic control is so spooked.
"In Our Skies," a standalone flash story in the Stories of the Alien Invasion Universe, focuses on one man's struggle to deliver his passengers safely to their destination before the aliens come for them.