Confessions of a Traveler, by Clara Molina

Alien 597 has a taste for adventure and enlightenment, so she jumped at the opportunity to travel to Earth, where the dominant species looks exactly like her own.  In Confessions of a Traveler: The Observations of Alien 597, Clara Molina conveys Alien 597's wanderings in our world.

First of all, from a practical standpoint, this story is barely long enough to be considered a short story.  It's longer than flash fiction, but shorter than most stories in, for example, a sci-fi anthology.  Not that short stories can't have value, but if you're spending $2.99 on a story from Amazon.com, you probably want to be aware that you're paying for a story that will take you about ten minutes to read.

Confessions of a Traveler is brief, but cute, insubstantial but amusing.  It doesn't take her long to figure out that "Everything was silly here, . . . and the people were silly too."  It's a silly little story.  I can think of worse ways to spend 10-15 minutes of my life, but I must say I'm glad I got my copy for free.


Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the complimentary electronic review copy!