ALL AT ONE POINT/ THE AQUATIC UNCLE

Im starting to notice a pattern in alot of the sci-fi short stories. Alot of them start off talking about "We" and they dont really explain who the "We"are. This short story was really confusing to me. I really had no idea what was going on. It was a little difficult to read for the reason that the peoples names were written like elements and that just threw me off big time. I dont know if i was just reading to fast but the story just didnt make any sense to me.

The second book was a little bit easier to read it was still confusing but the way it was worded it was easier to understand. It was mentioned that they slapped their paws and tails in the water.. sounding like  they are some sort of animal but they are really fish?

Bloodchild

I was lost with this story. i really had no idea what was going on aside from the fact that some guy had bugs in him and someone was pulling them out of him. I was unsure as so what the characters were supposed to be. This story reminded me of an episode of monsters inside of me when this kid went to a foreign land and came back to america and found out that he had bugs in him and when he pulled them out they were like these nasty slug things eating him slowly and growing inside of him getting bigger and bigger. so it was weird to me that they used this in a sci- fi book and then realizing "hey, this could really happen." its kind of a scary thing that sci- fi and real life are starting to mix together.
I was confused if these characters are some kind of bug or like aliens or something because they were talking about stinging each other and stuff like that to get rid of the pain. I also didnt get that the thing she was pulling out were supposed to be babies they just came off as slug like things to me.

Aye and Gomorrah 1967

I read this short story for the reading this week. I didn't totally understand what was going on in the story but i tried my best to grasp it. this was a very confusing story. from what i read i got that the spacers were people who had no gender. the spacers gave off kind of a stuck up attitude like they were better then the rest of the people and the frelks who im assuming were more like humans didnt seem to like them but also at the same time they found them attractive. I got from this that the spacers were in a way like prostitutes and the frelks had to pay them for any type of activity. Im still confused as to whether the spacers dont have genders or if they are like some cultures today and just are born one gender but practice as another.