Jane and the Queen

For Round 27 of our writing group, in August of 2009, we decided to write short stories that were somehow based on dreams that we'd had. Well, I'd recently dreamed of a giant ant-like alien that was screaming! Weird, I know, but I figured it could be made into a cool story. Here is my story - I also added a werewolf to create a hybrid sci-fi/fantasy tale - which some in my group said was my best writing so far. A short while later I decided to submit this story to an online magazine named Aphelion. It was accepted and has resided there ever since! Jane and the Queenby Rusty Keele "Dr. Rusch..." He kept reading the report. There still had not been any sign of the inhabitants of the pods. "Dr. Rusch?" Slowly he turned his head away from the paper as he was reading the last few words, and finally pulled his gaze from it as he looked up at her. She was standing in the door frame, a motherly look of concern on her face. "Yes, Sasha?" he finally said. "There's a new patient you may want to…