The Gods Hate Kansas

A FICTION HOUSE PRESS E-BOOK: INVASION FROM THE STARS! Temple and Lee burst out of the passageway and skidded to a halt, gasping and stunned. They were inside a huge, low cave. Ranged around half the wall stood a row of human beings, staring at them with blank eyes. Then, a circle of monstrous shapes came slithering out of the shadows from both sides to surround them. They had leathery, bulbous bodies consisting of both head and trunk and sprouting ten sinuous, writhing tentacles. Temple gasped aloud—not at the weird creatures or their actions but at the definite impression of rationality within them. Alien the creatures might be in form, but there was thinking, reasoning intelligence in their luminous eyes.