War of the Water Towers
... or how Big Things with More Than Two Legs scare the shit out of Humanity's offspring. Aliens are assholes Water towers unsettled me as a child. Perhaps it was because they were massive balls suspended on only a few thin legs? They groaned when the wind was fierce, and creaked when temperatures suddenly snapped from one extreme to another. Foreboding due to their mass and height, they stood like resolute sentries, sometimes silhouetted by the full moon when not obfuscated by grumbling storm clouds. We didn't climb them. We didn't go near them. Instead, we sat in our beds on stormy nights, and we waited with all the fever of a child eager to catch Santa at his job... but what we waited for wasn't anticipation of presents. Nay, we wanted verification of the Supreme Truth that my friends in our tiny town knew: water towers were alien machines. Oh, you can laugh all you want. It won't make much sense to people that haven't known a world witho
