No Time Like the Present by Carol Emshwiller

It's a story about a group of strangers who arrive in a town. They're different, but trying to fit in. The story is narrated by one of the town's children. Slowly the origins of the newcomers is revealed, actually without the title it would have taken longer to guess.

I enjoyed the story, I liked the voice of the first person narrative and I liked the slow guessing game about the newcomers. It's not a new idea, dealing with strangers and teenage isolation, but it was handled in an entertaining way that made it feel fresh. There's even the mandatory ambiguous ending, where the reader is left guessing what happened. 

Enjoyable. 

(And made me want to read more issues of Lightspeed Magazine, which I've been meaning to do but haven't got around to.)