The short story “Resident Alien” by Charles Kowalski, in the Insecure Writers’ Support Group anthology DARK MATTER: ARTIFICIAL (Pikeville, NC: Freedom Fox Press, 2021, pp. 110-128), uses science fiction to explore real-world issues of discrimination and human rights. The story’s premise is, “What if the struggle for freedom and equality were not a matter of one race of humanity against another, but of the entire human race together?” These materials, intended as a supplement to the story, prompt