Norville had no love for the eggheads. Damn scientists, messing about with things they didn’t understand. Fooling with alien technology like kids playing with matches in a basement filled with fuel oil and sawdust. Opening a wormhole in Earth’s orbit to who-knew-where-or-what…

It was Norville’s job to monitor what came through. The people of Earth weren’t supposed to know about it, but if an alien invasion force popped through and began their conquest in Times Square, the cover-up would be over. So, he watched for what came through and prayed the agencies, the Army, the Air Force, that one of them knew what to do and still had the budget to do it.

The office he worked in was pokey and mostly filled with a bank of CRT monitors installed years before, which showed the vicini...

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