Interstellar Farmer (Hometown Heroes)

[Sunner]

The parade for my return to my hometown was to be expected. Not many small, Midwestern, farm towns could claim an interstellar traveler as a native son. The fact that I had been gone for years and had long ago been given up for lost, only made the celebration bigger. As I considered just how very appropriate it was that everyone in the town, and all the farmers and their families from miles around, had gathered to welcome me home, I activated my homing beacon. Soon, the combine harvester ships of my new friends swept down and began their work.

[Flintknapper]

it reads angry. I am not saying it is a bad thing, but it seems like the narrator does not like his hometown much. Perhaps, he was unpopular before he became a sensation and now he feels resentment that they only accept him because he is famous??

Interesting.

[Sunner]

...or possibly was integrated into an alien intelligence whilst travelling the "great unknown"...

[will write for beer]

...or possibly was integrated into an alien intelligence whilst travelling the "great unknown"...

that was my thought...

[strawman]

Or the anger could be an alien demonic force. Intergalactic word has it that Ashurbanipal was merely the punier of twin brothers. Someone please call David Levine.

[gunsofchekhovia]

She thinks my tractor beam's sexy.

Loved. I did not feel it "reads angry," but rather reads as mostly indifferent, which I guess is how you'd be if you suddenly found yourself part of a collective intelligence. I also like the idea of all those small town folks trying to "grow where you're planted," never thinking about who or what would come to harvest them some day.