Pre-1980's science fiction short story: alien disguised as a woman shot by a gangster, has tentacles coming out of her breasts when remaking her body
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Written in a quasi-gangster style. Alien was presenting as a female. I remember a scene where the gangster shot her, (I think while they were in a car) and she scooped up the body matter and remade her body/clothes. Also where she got confused and her tentacles came out of her breasts and she ended up comforting the "bad guy", who ended up crying because he was so confused.
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Written in a quasi-gangster style. Alien was presenting as a female. I remember a scene where the gangster shot her, (I think while they were in a car) and she scooped up the body matter and remade her body/clothes. Also where she got confused and her tentacles came out of her breasts and she ended up comforting the "bad guy", who ended up crying because he was so confused.
story-identification short-stories
edited Mar 1 at 17:58
Jenayah
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asked Mar 1 at 17:51
BlueSpiderBlueSpider
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Hi there! That's some info already; could you maybe take a look at these guidelines on story-ID, see if they trigger any more memories you could edit in?
– Jenayah
Mar 1 at 17:57
7
Also someone needs to point out thatalien tentacles breastswill have some funny Google results :D
– Jenayah
Mar 1 at 17:59
1
@Jenayah just make sure you don't typo an "s" instead of an "n" in "tentacles"....unless you want even weirder results.
– BruceWayne
Mar 2 at 4:32
1
A duplicate of Short story (1960s?) - alien changes shape to appeal to male human. Thrown out of car, then re-assembles necklace from fender, though the answer to that question has not been accepted.
– John Rennie
Mar 2 at 10:45
add a comment |
Written in a quasi-gangster style. Alien was presenting as a female. I remember a scene where the gangster shot her, (I think while they were in a car) and she scooped up the body matter and remade her body/clothes. Also where she got confused and her tentacles came out of her breasts and she ended up comforting the "bad guy", who ended up crying because he was so confused.
story-identification short-stories
edited Mar 1 at 17:58
Jenayah
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asked Mar 1 at 17:51
BlueSpiderBlueSpider
763
Written in a quasi-gangster style. Alien was presenting as a female. I remember a scene where the gangster shot her, (I think while they were in a car) and she scooped up the body matter and remade her body/clothes. Also where she got confused and her tentacles came out of her breasts and she ended up comforting the "bad guy", who ended up crying because he was so confused.
story-identification short-stories
story-identification short-stories
edited Mar 1 at 17:58
Jenayah
21.5k5104140
asked Mar 1 at 17:51
BlueSpiderBlueSpider
763
edited Mar 1 at 17:58
Jenayah
21.5k5104140
asked Mar 1 at 17:51
BlueSpiderBlueSpider
763
edited Mar 1 at 17:58
Jenayah
21.5k5104140
edited Mar 1 at 17:58
Jenayah
21.5k5104140
edited Mar 1 at 17:58
Jenayah
21.5k5104140
21.5k5104140
asked Mar 1 at 17:51
BlueSpiderBlueSpider
763
asked Mar 1 at 17:51
BlueSpiderBlueSpider
763
asked Mar 1 at 17:51
BlueSpiderBlueSpider
763
763
Hi there! That's some info already; could you maybe take a look at these guidelines on story-ID, see if they trigger any more memories you could edit in?
– Jenayah
Mar 1 at 17:57
7
Also someone needs to point out thatalien tentacles breastswill have some funny Google results :D
– Jenayah
Mar 1 at 17:59
1
@Jenayah just make sure you don't typo an "s" instead of an "n" in "tentacles"....unless you want even weirder results.
– BruceWayne
Mar 2 at 4:32
1
A duplicate of Short story (1960s?) - alien changes shape to appeal to male human. Thrown out of car, then re-assembles necklace from fender, though the answer to that question has not been accepted.
– John Rennie
Mar 2 at 10:45
add a comment |
Hi there! That's some info already; could you maybe take a look at these guidelines on story-ID, see if they trigger any more memories you could edit in?
– Jenayah
Mar 1 at 17:57
7
Also someone needs to point out thatalien tentacles breastswill have some funny Google results :D
– Jenayah
Mar 1 at 17:59
1
@Jenayah just make sure you don't typo an "s" instead of an "n" in "tentacles"....unless you want even weirder results.
– BruceWayne
Mar 2 at 4:32
1
A duplicate of Short story (1960s?) - alien changes shape to appeal to male human. Thrown out of car, then re-assembles necklace from fender, though the answer to that question has not been accepted.
– John Rennie
Mar 2 at 10:45
Hi there! That's some info already; could you maybe take a look at these guidelines on story-ID, see if they trigger any more memories you could edit in?
– Jenayah
Mar 1 at 17:57
Hi there! That's some info already; could you maybe take a look at these guidelines on story-ID, see if they trigger any more memories you could edit in?
– Jenayah
Mar 1 at 17:57
7
7
Also someone needs to point out that
alien tentacles breasts will have some funny Google results :D– Jenayah
Mar 1 at 17:59
Also someone needs to point out that
alien tentacles breasts will have some funny Google results :D– Jenayah
Mar 1 at 17:59
1
1
@Jenayah just make sure you don't typo an "s" instead of an "n" in "tentacles"....unless you want even weirder results.
– BruceWayne
Mar 2 at 4:32
@Jenayah just make sure you don't typo an "s" instead of an "n" in "tentacles"....unless you want even weirder results.
– BruceWayne
Mar 2 at 4:32
1
1
A duplicate of Short story (1960s?) - alien changes shape to appeal to male human. Thrown out of car, then re-assembles necklace from fender, though the answer to that question has not been accepted.
– John Rennie
Mar 2 at 10:45
A duplicate of Short story (1960s?) - alien changes shape to appeal to male human. Thrown out of car, then re-assembles necklace from fender, though the answer to that question has not been accepted.
– John Rennie
Mar 2 at 10:45
add a comment |
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I think this is the Fritz Leiber story "The Night He Cried" (1953). The protagonist, a shape-changing alien heptapus, is shot by the man she's riding with and reconsitutes herself:
“That’s exactly what I mean, Slickie,” I managed to say before my beautiful midriff, which I’d been at such pains to perfect, erupted into smoke and ghastly red splatter. I did a backward flipflop out of the car and lay still—a most fetching corpse with a rucked-up skirt. As the convertible snorted off triumphantly, I snagged hold of the rear bumper, briefly changing my hand back to a tentacle for better gripping. Before the pavement had abraded more than a few grams of my substance, I pulled myself up onto the bumper, where I proceeded to reconstitute my vanished midriff with material from the air, the rest of my body, and the paint on the trunk case. On this occasion the work went rapidly, with no artistic gropings, since I had the curves memorized from the first time I’d worked them out. Then I touched up my abrasions, stripped myself, whipped myself up a snazzy silver lame evening frock out of chromium from the bumper, and put in time creating costume jewelry out of the tail light and the rest of the chrome.
At the conclusion of the story, after the tentacle mix-up, she comforts him:
Then I realized that in my excitement, instead of using my upper dorsal tentacles, I’d used the upper ventral ones I kept transmuted into my beautiful milk glands. I do suppose they looked rather strange to Slickie as they came out of the bosom of my off-the-shoulders evening dress and drew him to me.
Frightening sounds came out of him. ...
...
I caressed him tenderly with my tentacles. Over and over again I explained that I was just a heptapus and that Galaxy Center had selected me for the job simply because my seven tentacles would transmute nicely into the seven extremities of the human female.
Over and over again I told him how I loved him.
It didn’t seem to help. Slickie Millane continued to weep hysterically.
answered Mar 1 at 18:16
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Blue Spider, if this is the right answer, you can accept it by clicking the chekmark on the left. Please do; it will show everyone the mystery was solved and reward both you and David with some reputation :)
– Jenayah
Mar 1 at 18:19
1
Nailed it, methinks! +1
– Organic Marble
Mar 1 at 18:20
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It was a parody of Mickey Spillane's tough guy private eye stories which were very violent and gave short shrift to women.
– David Johnston
Mar 1 at 19:09
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I think this is the Fritz Leiber story "The Night He Cried" (1953). The protagonist, a shape-changing alien heptapus, is shot by the man she's riding with and reconsitutes herself:
“That’s exactly what I mean, Slickie,” I managed to say before my beautiful midriff, which I’d been at such pains to perfect, erupted into smoke and ghastly red splatter. I did a backward flipflop out of the car and lay still—a most fetching corpse with a rucked-up skirt. As the convertible snorted off triumphantly, I snagged hold of the rear bumper, briefly changing my hand back to a tentacle for better gripping. Before the pavement had abraded more than a few grams of my substance, I pulled myself up onto the bumper, where I proceeded to reconstitute my vanished midriff with material from the air, the rest of my body, and the paint on the trunk case. On this occasion the work went rapidly, with no artistic gropings, since I had the curves memorized from the first time I’d worked them out. Then I touched up my abrasions, stripped myself, whipped myself up a snazzy silver lame evening frock out of chromium from the bumper, and put in time creating costume jewelry out of the tail light and the rest of the chrome.
At the conclusion of the story, after the tentacle mix-up, she comforts him:
Then I realized that in my excitement, instead of using my upper dorsal tentacles, I’d used the upper ventral ones I kept transmuted into my beautiful milk glands. I do suppose they looked rather strange to Slickie as they came out of the bosom of my off-the-shoulders evening dress and drew him to me.
Frightening sounds came out of him. ...
...
I caressed him tenderly with my tentacles. Over and over again I explained that I was just a heptapus and that Galaxy Center had selected me for the job simply because my seven tentacles would transmute nicely into the seven extremities of the human female.
Over and over again I told him how I loved him.
It didn’t seem to help. Slickie Millane continued to weep hysterically.
answered Mar 1 at 18:16
David MoewsDavid Moews
2,1111212
1
Blue Spider, if this is the right answer, you can accept it by clicking the chekmark on the left. Please do; it will show everyone the mystery was solved and reward both you and David with some reputation :)
– Jenayah
Mar 1 at 18:19
1
Nailed it, methinks! +1
– Organic Marble
Mar 1 at 18:20
7
It was a parody of Mickey Spillane's tough guy private eye stories which were very violent and gave short shrift to women.
– David Johnston
Mar 1 at 19:09
add a comment |
I think this is the Fritz Leiber story "The Night He Cried" (1953). The protagonist, a shape-changing alien heptapus, is shot by the man she's riding with and reconsitutes herself:
“That’s exactly what I mean, Slickie,” I managed to say before my beautiful midriff, which I’d been at such pains to perfect, erupted into smoke and ghastly red splatter. I did a backward flipflop out of the car and lay still—a most fetching corpse with a rucked-up skirt. As the convertible snorted off triumphantly, I snagged hold of the rear bumper, briefly changing my hand back to a tentacle for better gripping. Before the pavement had abraded more than a few grams of my substance, I pulled myself up onto the bumper, where I proceeded to reconstitute my vanished midriff with material from the air, the rest of my body, and the paint on the trunk case. On this occasion the work went rapidly, with no artistic gropings, since I had the curves memorized from the first time I’d worked them out. Then I touched up my abrasions, stripped myself, whipped myself up a snazzy silver lame evening frock out of chromium from the bumper, and put in time creating costume jewelry out of the tail light and the rest of the chrome.
At the conclusion of the story, after the tentacle mix-up, she comforts him:
Then I realized that in my excitement, instead of using my upper dorsal tentacles, I’d used the upper ventral ones I kept transmuted into my beautiful milk glands. I do suppose they looked rather strange to Slickie as they came out of the bosom of my off-the-shoulders evening dress and drew him to me.
Frightening sounds came out of him. ...
...
I caressed him tenderly with my tentacles. Over and over again I explained that I was just a heptapus and that Galaxy Center had selected me for the job simply because my seven tentacles would transmute nicely into the seven extremities of the human female.
Over and over again I told him how I loved him.
It didn’t seem to help. Slickie Millane continued to weep hysterically.
answered Mar 1 at 18:16
David MoewsDavid Moews
2,1111212
1
Blue Spider, if this is the right answer, you can accept it by clicking the chekmark on the left. Please do; it will show everyone the mystery was solved and reward both you and David with some reputation :)
– Jenayah
Mar 1 at 18:19
1
Nailed it, methinks! +1
– Organic Marble
Mar 1 at 18:20
7
It was a parody of Mickey Spillane's tough guy private eye stories which were very violent and gave short shrift to women.
– David Johnston
Mar 1 at 19:09
add a comment |
I think this is the Fritz Leiber story "The Night He Cried" (1953). The protagonist, a shape-changing alien heptapus, is shot by the man she's riding with and reconsitutes herself:
“That’s exactly what I mean, Slickie,” I managed to say before my beautiful midriff, which I’d been at such pains to perfect, erupted into smoke and ghastly red splatter. I did a backward flipflop out of the car and lay still—a most fetching corpse with a rucked-up skirt. As the convertible snorted off triumphantly, I snagged hold of the rear bumper, briefly changing my hand back to a tentacle for better gripping. Before the pavement had abraded more than a few grams of my substance, I pulled myself up onto the bumper, where I proceeded to reconstitute my vanished midriff with material from the air, the rest of my body, and the paint on the trunk case. On this occasion the work went rapidly, with no artistic gropings, since I had the curves memorized from the first time I’d worked them out. Then I touched up my abrasions, stripped myself, whipped myself up a snazzy silver lame evening frock out of chromium from the bumper, and put in time creating costume jewelry out of the tail light and the rest of the chrome.
At the conclusion of the story, after the tentacle mix-up, she comforts him:
Then I realized that in my excitement, instead of using my upper dorsal tentacles, I’d used the upper ventral ones I kept transmuted into my beautiful milk glands. I do suppose they looked rather strange to Slickie as they came out of the bosom of my off-the-shoulders evening dress and drew him to me.
Frightening sounds came out of him. ...
...
I caressed him tenderly with my tentacles. Over and over again I explained that I was just a heptapus and that Galaxy Center had selected me for the job simply because my seven tentacles would transmute nicely into the seven extremities of the human female.
Over and over again I told him how I loved him.
It didn’t seem to help. Slickie Millane continued to weep hysterically.
answered Mar 1 at 18:16
David MoewsDavid Moews
2,1111212
I think this is the Fritz Leiber story "The Night He Cried" (1953). The protagonist, a shape-changing alien heptapus, is shot by the man she's riding with and reconsitutes herself:
“That’s exactly what I mean, Slickie,” I managed to say before my beautiful midriff, which I’d been at such pains to perfect, erupted into smoke and ghastly red splatter. I did a backward flipflop out of the car and lay still—a most fetching corpse with a rucked-up skirt. As the convertible snorted off triumphantly, I snagged hold of the rear bumper, briefly changing my hand back to a tentacle for better gripping. Before the pavement had abraded more than a few grams of my substance, I pulled myself up onto the bumper, where I proceeded to reconstitute my vanished midriff with material from the air, the rest of my body, and the paint on the trunk case. On this occasion the work went rapidly, with no artistic gropings, since I had the curves memorized from the first time I’d worked them out. Then I touched up my abrasions, stripped myself, whipped myself up a snazzy silver lame evening frock out of chromium from the bumper, and put in time creating costume jewelry out of the tail light and the rest of the chrome.
At the conclusion of the story, after the tentacle mix-up, she comforts him:
Then I realized that in my excitement, instead of using my upper dorsal tentacles, I’d used the upper ventral ones I kept transmuted into my beautiful milk glands. I do suppose they looked rather strange to Slickie as they came out of the bosom of my off-the-shoulders evening dress and drew him to me.
Frightening sounds came out of him. ...
...
I caressed him tenderly with my tentacles. Over and over again I explained that I was just a heptapus and that Galaxy Center had selected me for the job simply because my seven tentacles would transmute nicely into the seven extremities of the human female.
Over and over again I told him how I loved him.
It didn’t seem to help. Slickie Millane continued to weep hysterically.
answered Mar 1 at 18:16
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edited Mar 2 at 6:40
answered Mar 1 at 18:16
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answered Mar 1 at 18:16
David MoewsDavid Moews
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answered Mar 1 at 18:16
David MoewsDavid Moews
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Blue Spider, if this is the right answer, you can accept it by clicking the chekmark on the left. Please do; it will show everyone the mystery was solved and reward both you and David with some reputation :)
– Jenayah
Mar 1 at 18:19
1
Nailed it, methinks! +1
– Organic Marble
Mar 1 at 18:20
7
It was a parody of Mickey Spillane's tough guy private eye stories which were very violent and gave short shrift to women.
– David Johnston
Mar 1 at 19:09
add a comment |
1
Blue Spider, if this is the right answer, you can accept it by clicking the chekmark on the left. Please do; it will show everyone the mystery was solved and reward both you and David with some reputation :)
– Jenayah
Mar 1 at 18:19
1
Nailed it, methinks! +1
– Organic Marble
Mar 1 at 18:20
7
It was a parody of Mickey Spillane's tough guy private eye stories which were very violent and gave short shrift to women.
– David Johnston
Mar 1 at 19:09
1
1
Blue Spider, if this is the right answer, you can accept it by clicking the chekmark on the left. Please do; it will show everyone the mystery was solved and reward both you and David with some reputation :)
– Jenayah
Mar 1 at 18:19
Blue Spider, if this is the right answer, you can accept it by clicking the chekmark on the left. Please do; it will show everyone the mystery was solved and reward both you and David with some reputation :)
– Jenayah
Mar 1 at 18:19
1
1
Nailed it, methinks! +1
– Organic Marble
Mar 1 at 18:20
Nailed it, methinks! +1
– Organic Marble
Mar 1 at 18:20
7
7
It was a parody of Mickey Spillane's tough guy private eye stories which were very violent and gave short shrift to women.
– David Johnston
Mar 1 at 19:09
It was a parody of Mickey Spillane's tough guy private eye stories which were very violent and gave short shrift to women.
– David Johnston
Mar 1 at 19:09
add a comment |
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Hi there! That's some info already; could you maybe take a look at these guidelines on story-ID, see if they trigger any more memories you could edit in?
– Jenayah
Mar 1 at 17:57
7
Also someone needs to point out that
alien tentacles breastswill have some funny Google results :D– Jenayah
Mar 1 at 17:59
1
@Jenayah just make sure you don't typo an "s" instead of an "n" in "tentacles"....unless you want even weirder results.
– BruceWayne
Mar 2 at 4:32
1
A duplicate of Short story (1960s?) - alien changes shape to appeal to male human. Thrown out of car, then re-assembles necklace from fender, though the answer to that question has not been accepted.
– John Rennie
Mar 2 at 10:45