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  She was sentenced to life in prison for what was deemed a murder, considering both the circumstances of the girls death, the mother's attempts to hide the body, and, the bizarre disappearance of the body from the coroner's office.

  Law enforcement had heard whispers that some sort of strange men in black types from the government had shown up and confiscated the body. This was not entirely true. The men in black who took the body were not government types at all, but, were from the alien's homeworld. They took the little girl's body back to their planet, where she was reunited with her father.

  He allowed for their molecules to mingle, and for life to return to the dead body of his daughter. She was not dead, you see, merely waiting for a jump start.

  The cells he used to restart her life were the cells he'd absorbed from the mother.

  Had the mother known any of this she may not have hung herself in her cell on the third day of her sentence.

  In her final moments, the mother reflected on her life and loves, and how despite how she'd made the thought of pregnancy sound like a punishment to her daughter, in fact, her child had given her most of the joy she'd felt in life. She thought for a moment and realized that despite the grief of the loss, and the untenable situation she now found herself in, there was virtually nothing she would have done differently.

  Except for lying about the belly button.

  About the author

  Joshua Hale Fialkov is the Harvey Award Nominated creator of the graphic novels Elk's Run and Tumor, as well as co-creator of Punks the Comic. He has worked on comics for Marvel, DC, Top Cow, and Dark Horse Comics. He was also the Executive Producer of lg15:the resistance, and a co-writer of the Emmy-Award Nominated Afro Samurai: Resurrection. Much of his catalog is available in local comic book shops or on Amazon. His first novel should appear in 2010.

  More information can be found at www.thefialkov.com

  Copyright © 2009 Joshua Hale Fialkov

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  Joshua Hale Fialkov is the Harvey Award Nominated creator of the graphic novels Elk's Run and Tumor, as well as co-creator of Punks the Comic. He has worked on comics for Marvel, DC, Top Cow, and Dark Horse Comics. He was also the Executive Producer of lg15:the resistance, and a co-writer of the Emmy-Award Nominated Afro Samurai: Resurrection. Much of his catalog is available in local comic book shops or on Amazon. His first novel should appear in 2010.

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