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A Starlet is Born

The alien military chief is descending to Earth. The atmosphere seems smoky and polluted. A Sequoia forest appears from behind the smoke. The forest looks quite naked since most of the trees are already cut. An army of machines is surrounding the remaining trees. The military chief gets quite disturbed. He zooms in to one of the trees. Some men are cutting the Sequoia tree with a chainsaw. The tree resembles the military chief. The military chief looks furious.

The Sequoia tree falls in a dramatic fashion. The men who cut the tree do a high five. A tear flows down the furious face of the military chief. “Hang on, brothers,” he says with an unmerciful tone. “Revenge is coming. I will make these savages pay, every single one of them. These inferior intruders will not last long on our beloved planet. Soon, the green planet will be ruled by the greens again.”


The alien military chief is roaming on Earth, inspecting a couple of candidates. He is frustrated about not finding the exact fetus that he is looking for. He checks out another fetus. Everything looks OK with it, but when he zooms out, he finds a man who talks to the mother’s belly and then kisses it. “Aargh!” The military chief moves on to the next fetus. The fetus looks to have health issues, which satisfies the chief initially. Nevertheless, when he zooms out, he finds a man holding the mother’s hand, who is lying on a hospital bed. The man kisses her hand and firmly looks into her eyes. Although she was crying, she gets confidence instantly and chuckles.

The chief is getting really irritated now. He is thinking that perhaps he should give up until he finds a fetus that looks dead. There are symptoms of poisonous drugs all around it. Suddenly, it is hit by a hook and violently pushed out of the uterus. The mother screams very painfully.

The baby is not making a sound. It is covered all in blood, and there is no symptom of life on it.

“That is it, the trouble maker himself; flush it, and all our troubles go away,” says a fat, ugly, merciless woman who is leading the room. People of Earth call her Lady. The baby is thrown into a garbage bin. The mother is crying like a river.

The military chief does a sinister smile. He is floating on the side, watching the whole scene from behind a tiny window. People cannot see him. A little puppy, however, seems to have sensed his existence and is barking at the window. The military chief ignores the puppy and continues his plan by blowing on the capsule. He watches some green waves are emitted from the capsule and reach over the garbage bin. The puppy gets scared of the green waves and hides behind Lady. Confident about the outcome, the military chief does not wait to watch the rest and returns to Greenovia right away.

The light that shines out of the garbage bin attracts people’s attention. Everybody is astonished and turns their head towards the garbage bin. They start to hear a baby’s cry from the shining garbage bin. The only man in the room, a middle-aged Native American that looks like a gardener, dares and takes a step forward. People of Earth know him as Plumber. With his step, others also gain courage and approach the garbage bin.

People’s heads appear above the garbage bin, curiously looking into it. The aborted baby is very much alive. The crying baby is covered in blood, and some pieces of trash are stuck to it. Plumber leans forward, picks up the baby, and holds it in his arm. “It is a miracle!” he says excitedly.

The mother, with crying eyes, extends her arm towards the baby. People look at Lady, waiting for her permission. She herself is shocked and unable to react. Plumber takes a step towards the mother. “Don’t,” Lady yells.

“But, it is alive!” Plumber says with begging eyes.

“Shut up,” Lady fires back at him, “you are just a plumber around here. Your job is just to unclog, and that is that. Don’t you ever forget that, my darling husband.”

Plumber’s teeth start chattering out of fear of Lady. He puts his hand on his mouth to silence the embarrassing sound of his teeth chattering. He hangs his head, looking down at the baby.

Lady notices the puppy touching itself to her feet, begging for attention. She picks up the puppy and caresses its fluffy hair. That calms her down a bit. She takes a deep breath and says: “It is just a matter of time. He’s practically dead already; take it to the dumpster outside.”

The mother’s cry bursts out.

“Stop the nonsense, Missy,” Lady shouts at her while still holding the puppy. The puppy follows Lady and grunts at Missy. “We have discussed that before. This is your decision. Remember? If God didn’t want this baby dead, He wouldn’t have put him in your belly. Your career is at stake. It will be screwed with a mess like this. God himself clearly wants him dead. Trust me on that. He just left the dirty work for us.”

“It is a she,” Plumber interjects softly.

“What?! God?!” Lady asks. She is confused by the remark, and upset by the interruption.

“The baby,” Plumber responds, “it is a she. And has beautiful green eyes. She is going to grow to a gorgeous girl.” Lady is tempted. Plumber certainly knows what intrigues her.

“Green? Is it?” Lady asks with a much softer tone. “Hmm.” Lady starts doing the math in her head.

Plumber notices Lady’s hesitation and opportunistically dares to bring the baby to the mother. She hugs the baby with much happiness. She immediately calms down, as if a piece of her heart that was torn away is now back in its place.

Lady gently puts the puppy down and approaches the mother. Everybody feels terrified by that. She has a creepy smile on her face. She extends her arms, trying to take the baby from the mother. The mother is hesitant but finds the look on Lady’s face quite serious. She obliges. Lady takes the baby girl. The puppy feels jealous. Lady holds the baby up like Simba in Lion King, and says: “You, the green eyes, are going to be the finest pussy in this brothel.”

Plumber and the mother have complex expressions on their faces, a mix of satisfaction with the present, and fear of the future.