Proxima Centauri and the Aliens of Porrila

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This story is fiction and is mostly for entertainment. It does have a serious message as well.

• Don’t be prejudiced against those who are different from us.
• If real aliens ever contact us treat them responsibly as you would want them to treat us.
• If real aliens ever contact us how they treat us may depend on how we were planning to treat them.

I'm Proxima Centauri, please help me. I'm nearer to the Solar System than any other star. And if you don't help me I don't know who else will. I'm only a little star. And I'm blushing all red because I'm so little. And I can't get yellow or blue like the bigger stars. I'm not a bright shiny star like Sirius. And I'm not a powerful luminous star like Rigel. And my nearest neighbours are Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B and they're both a quarter of a light year away. And I'm all alone in a big Galaxy. And I'm scared I'll get hurt.

I’ll tell you what my biggest problem is. You see most of my planets are well behaved. But there’s one orbiting quite close to me. It’s a real turbulent one. And the things there are the weirdest Aliens. And they’re exploring the Alpha Centauri system now. And when they’ve finished guess where they’re going next?

• Chapter 1 The things that crawled out of the slime on the planet Porrila
• Chapter 2 The First Human Spaceship hasn’t yet arrived on Porrila
• Chapter 3 It's not altogether nice
• Chapter 4 The Verdict
• Chapter 5 He cried because….
• Chapter 6 The prisoner knows he is judged
• Chapter 7 Sadistic Guards
• Chapter 8 Punishing Exercise