He warned us, for weeks he told us they were watching him but no one took him seriously. My little brother was always living in a dream world of his own creation. For him superheroes flew through the sky and fought epic battles outside his window and when the villains came knocking I was always there, I’d hear him cry out in the night and go to him without hesitation, mum regularly found me in hi...

The creatures were huge and relentless, rushing the lines heedless of casualty’s. From the moment they had first made ground fall the war had been a constant cycle of retreats with little hope of success and then, just as all hope was lost the advance stopped. Odd skirmishs still took place occasionally but the aliens unstoppable advance had proven that “unstoppable” was actually the wrong word ...