The Watery Place

"The Watery Place" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.It was first published in the October 1956 issue of Satellite Science Fiction and reprinted in the 1957 collection Earth Is Room Enough."The Watery Place" is narrated by the unnamed deputy sheriff of Twin Gulch, Idaho, who opens the story by explaining that humanity will never achieve space travel.It was the world's bad fortune that the first extraterrestrials to land on Earth happened to arrive in Twin Gulch, Idaho on the evening of 14 April 1956.After the aliens leave, the outraged deputy drags Cameron over to the window and makes him watch as the flying saucer takes off.
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