By the way, I forgot to mention in my earlier post: I love your allusion to Dr. Who in the title. I'm sort of a Whovian by proxy -- my two best friends in high school were Whovians, and although I found the show amusing, I was never especially into it. But I wound up picking up my share of Dr. Who trivia just from hanging around them. And although I didn't catch the allusion until after I read your story's punchline, in retrospect I should have seen the similarity between your story's title of "An Unearthly Origin" and the title of the first Dr. Who story, "An Unearthly Child."
Well done!
Joy,
Lynn
