The Insidious Invaders

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After the incident of the disposal unit, there was no longer any room for reasonable doubt: something peculiar had happened to Ted Kennedy while he was away at space. Marge and Dave Spalding, Kennedy’s sister and brother-in-law, had been watching him all evening, growing more and more puzzled by certain strangenesses in Kennedy’s behavior. But this was the strangest of all.

He had been wandering around the room, examining the new gadgets that now were standard household fare. They were strange to him, after all the years he had been away. He had been standing by the wall disposal unit, which efficiently and instantly converted matter to energy, and he had suddenly, curiously, stuck his hand near the open entryway to the unit, saying, “This house is so full of new gadgets that I hardly know what anything does. This thing over here—”

“Watch out, Ted!” Marge Spalding screamed in alarm. “Don’t—”

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