On other planets, humans are the aliens.
These eight quirky, offbeat stories have aliens and humans discovering they are more the same than different. From alien romance to joyful adventures to coming of age, these stories are happy rather than dramatic.
- Gillian is looking for love and can’t find it on Earth. If she finds love, what type of alien will they be?
- In orbit above the Earth-like planet Buffet, Denise writes her report on a specific family she studied who enjoy their breakfast life. When finished, she must decide whether to return to Earth or stay with the breakfast family who she has grown to love.
- The Director has been ordered to brief the company’s Resource Committee. With more money, he can continue to manage projects to failure. Except the odd looking committee members scare him.
- Ten-year-old Pauline wants a best friend to get her through puberty and middle school. Except her adoptive parents are aliens and want to know what a best friend is.
- Jane meets too many aliens who want her poop for fuel. They need to leave Earth before the geese.
- On a trip to a planet covered in beautiful flowers, Barney is surprised his other space travelers didn’t kill each. With their different opinions, can the flowers help them return?
- Getting on a commuter train, Lucy struggles to remember what happened to her. She sits with Henry who tells her the truth about which one of them is an alien.
- Harley should be dead, yet an alien’s meddling causes them to find another way to die.
In case there have been too many aliens, here are two bonus stories about time travel.
- Matthew takes a time drug and relives the trip seventy years ago when he escaped his family for academia. On the trip, he realizes he must escape again.
- Susan wants to go back in time to stop an epidemic that killed her son and husband. Like all these stories, this has a good ending.