A short story about survival, prion disease, and guilt.Morri Ganley, currently in possession of the death sentence of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, is taken captive by a cannibalistic alien species after a government-planned trip to the outer rim of the solar system. Save Earth, she had been begged. You will live beyond the year, beyond the war, if you do this.Her captors transfer her mind into a synthetic body while her flesh and blood body is sent to a processing plant to be...

A short story about loneliness and what a particular extraterrestrial will do to prevent it.Pnoth is the head of an invasion force that finds the initial takeover of Earth to be extremely easy. One thing disturbs him, though - their chanting of a phrase containing the word 'Cthulhu.' No one had seen the monstrous god in millennia, even if they all knew of him.They are about to be reminded of Great Cthulhu's presence - and Great Cthulhu always repays his debts.