Jag läste en historia i en historia om sci-fi-historia (ca 35 år sedan) där POV-karaktären flyr invaderande utomjordingar med sitt barn i sina armar (jag tror att fruen är död). Han vet att han kommer att fångas och dödas av dessa rapacious, våldsamma utomjordingar som bara vill förstöra. Slutligen kommer utlänningen från träden och berättelsen beskriver hur hjälten ser ut - kattunge, med svans. Hjälten konfronterar mördaren - mannen! Det var en cool historia som blåste mitt 8: e klass sinne. BTW, det är inte Frenzy.
Kanske "Jägarna" av Walt Sheldon , först publicerad i Förtrollande historier , mars 1952 , tillgänglig på Internetarkiv . Du kan ha läst det i antologin Femtios korta science fiction talar redigerad av Isaac Asimov och Groff Conklin . Det matchar inte alla detaljer du gav: man och fru håller på att dödas men båda lever fortfarande när historien slutar. inget barn nämns Synpunkterna är inte beskrivna som "kattunge med svans". Här är slutet på historien:
He stumbled, and she fell with him. They lay there, at the roots of a white-barked tree, in each other's arms, and they looked into each other's eyes and knew they couldn't go on.
They heard the shouting voices.
She said, "I don't feel anything. Funny. I'm not angry or afraid or anything."
They clung to each other suddenly. He ran his lips along her cheeks and hair and he wiped the tears from her cheek with his own and he murmured things without really hearing them.
"I'm glad we're together," said Jeni.
They heard the breaking of the underbrush.
Abruptly, he stood. He faced the approaching sounds and made fists at his sides. His eyes were wild. "Damn you! Damn you! Damn You!" he cried.
"It's their way," said Jeni. "They're hunters. It's their way."
There was no anger in her voice.
A creature emerged from the white-barked trees. He stood there and stared at Lon, and stared at Jeni upon the ground. He seemed a little frightened himself. He lifted his weapon.
Lon stared back, taking in every strange detail. It was his first close look at one of these invaders from the planet called Earth, which was third from the Sun and had one Moon.
He waited for the noise of the weapon, wondering if he would hear it.
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