Saucer of Loneliness by Theodore Sturgeon
Author:Theodore Sturgeon [Sturgeon, Theodore]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sci Fi Short Story
Publisher: Galaxy Magazine
Published: 1953-02-17T00:00:00+00:00
She started to rise, but solicitous hands forced her down again. There were thirty police there by that time.
âI can walk,â she said.
âNow, you just take it easy,â they told her.
They put a stretcher down beside her and lifted her onto it and covered her with a big blanket.
âI can walk,â she said as they carried her through the crowd.
A woman went white and turned away moaning, âOh, my God, how awful!â
A small man with round eyes stared and stared at her and licked and licked his lips.
The ambulance. They slid her in. The gaberdine was already there.
A white-coated man with very clean hands: âHow did it happen, miss?â
âNo questions,â said the gaberdine. âSecurity.â
The hospital.
She said, âI got to get back to work.â
âTake your clothes off,â they told her.
She had a bedroom to herself then for the first time in her life. Whenever the door opened, she could see a policeman outside. It opened very often to admit the kind of civilians who were very polite to military people, and the kind of military people who were even more polite to certain civilians. She did not know what they all did nor what they wanted. Every single day they asked her four million five hundred thousand questions. Apparently they never talked to each other, because each of them asked her the same questions over and over.
âWhat is your name?â
âHow old are you?â
âWhat year were you born?â
âWhat is your name?â
Sometimes they would push her down strange paths with their questions.
âNow, your uncle. Married a woman from Middle Europe, did he? Where in Middle Europe?â
âWhat clubs or fraternal organizations did you belong to? Ah! Now, about that Rinkeydinks gang on Sixty-third Street. Who was really behind it?â
But over and over again, âWhat did you mean when you said the saucer talked to you?â
And she would say, âIt talked to me.â
And they would say, âAnd it saidââ
And she would shake her head.
There would be a lot of shouting ones, and then a lot of kind ones. No one had ever been so kind to her before, but she soon learned that no one was being kind to her. They were just getting her to relax, to think of other things, so they could suddenly shoot that question at her. âWhat do you mean it talked to you?â
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