Chewing Bubblegum and Kicking Ass: Eight O'clock In The Morning by Ray Nelson

For some reason, they didn't include a 6 minute fight scene in a six page story.

Stumbled across this at random on the internet today and gave it a read. No sun glasses, instead George "wakes up" when he goes to a hypnotist show and they tell him to wake up. George puppeting the dead alien at the end is funny. Kind of surprised Carpenter didn't keep it, seems like his style. Fun little read on my lunch break.