Gathering Clouds

by James Field

"Are you telling us" said John, finding it hard to control himself, "that you have a brother out there flying around in a home made spacecraft tied together with bits of wire mesh and tape and that these all powerful aliens can’t harm him in any way?" "Precisely!" Trevor tinkers with his flying-saucer and Russell tinkers with his martial-arts, which is a pity for the aliens tinkering with our planet.