Fiction: based on a story from Richard Matheson
Mrs. Johnson, an elderly woman who lived in a remote cabin in the woods, was used to a simple life with no modern conveniences. But one day, a strange deafening noise above her kitchen roof caught her attention. When she went to check, she was met with two tiny figures, who appeared to be robots or beings in pressure suits, emerging from a miniature flying saucer that had landed on her roof.
The small figures attacked Mrs. Johnson with pistol-like weapons, leaving radiation burns on her skin. They followed her into her cabin, where they slashed her ankle and hand with her own kitchen knife. But Mrs. Johnson was a tough woman and managed to fight back, killing one of the intruders by wrapping it in a blanket and beating it until it was still, then throwing it into the burning fireplace.
She followed the other intruder to the saucer-ship on her roof and attacked it with a hatchet. Suddenly, a voice speaking in English emanated from within the craft, warning her that his partner, Gresham, was dead and that the planet was inhabited by a race of giants that were impossible to defeat. To her surprise, the side of the ship read “U.S. Air Force Space Probe No. 1.” The “tiny” invaders were human astronauts from Earth. Mrs. Johnson, who belonged to a race of giant humanoids native to another planet, finished destroying the ship and climbed back down from the roof into the house, exhausted.
From that day on, Mrs. Johnson lived a quiet life, pondering the strange encounter she had with the human astronauts. She couldn’t help but wonder if there were other beings out there, and what other adventures life had in store for her.
