Government fiction flying too close to reality

How UFOs Are “Investigated” By Our Government

Be a fly on the wall of government overreach and misappropriations

Austin Wilson
Shibboleth
Published in
2 min readFeb 1, 2023

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Photo by Stéphan Valentin on Unsplash

A break room in a bunker far under the Pentagon’s anus. The walls are formed from vending machines all stacked side by side and on top of each other. There’s one folding table and two chairs, a government agent per chair. Light from the vending machines turns their flesh into worm larvae. They are both combing oil and mucus into their hair and eyebrows.

CLIFFORD
The media got ahold of AATIP somehow.

RUNKHAUSER
Smarmy little dweebs.

CLIFFORD
We gotta’ piss in their lattes over this one.

RUNKHAUSER
(Quieter, muttering cartoonishly)
Soy bullshit wannabe Woodwards with their —

CLIFFORD
(Interrupting)
Ideas?

Runkhauser grumbles and slaps his comb onto the table.

RUNKHAUSER
Just tell the idiots we shut AATIP down and are starting some other horse shit program up.

CLIFFORD
Always feed the monkeys, am I right?

Runkhauser horks up a wad of phlegm and shoots it into his hand. He smears it across both eyebrows.

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Austin Wilson
Shibboleth

Writer with stories in Ahoy Comics, Black Hare Press, Magnetic Press, and Defenstration. Sci-fi, horror, and comedy. Hosts Ledger: A Writing Podcast.