TheThuk
The visitors nobody can remember. Meet a Thuk, look away, and poof, they're gone from your memory.
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The Thuk
The visitors nobody can remember. Meet a Thuk, look away, and poof, they're gone from your memory.
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The Thuk
File #006 · THUK
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- Link to Earth
The story
A meeting you can't keep
Chapter 1
A meeting you can't keep
The Essassani, a gentle star people, once met the Thuk. Face to face, everything felt normal. The moment they turned away, they forgot it all.
Chapter 2
Needles in the sky
Their ships are long and needle-like. Picture a super-stretched football, pointed at both ends and slightly bent in the middle.
Chapter 3
The watermelon seed trick
The Essassani sensed something had happened but couldn't recall it. So their minds shot off in "a third direction", like a squeezed watermelon seed. With the Thuk's permission, they remembered.
Chapter 4
Their one taboo
Only one other civilization in the Association of Worlds, the friendly club of planets, can remember them. It promised not to tell. Being described is the Thuk's taboo.
Chapter 5
The trick they borrowed
The Essassani took a page from the Thuk's book. They've already met millions of humans in person, and every one forgot right after. Could you be one? You'd never know.
5 things to know
5 things to know
In their own words
“The moment they're gone, you forget you ever saw them.”
Mystery box
Mystery box
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