Alien Menace:Contact

We thought we were alone. We were wrong.I was ten when the aliens came. They tore apart our world and killed those we loved.  By twelve, I had learned how to fight them.No one on Earth had ever imagined life beyond our skies. We had no warnings, no preparations, no understanding of what these beings were or why they came. Their arrival was sudden, violent, and impossible to comprehend.As our cities fell and our people scattered, I learned that survival meant more than running or hiding. It meant questioning everything we believed about our place in the universe — and everything we thought we knew about ourselves.The invaders changed our world forever.  What they want… remains a mystery.  What they've already taken… can never be replaced.The Alien Menace is a tense, character‑driven story of invasion, resilience, and a young girl forced to grow up in a world that no longer makes sense.This is a short story of approximately 1,170 words (4 chapters).