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!
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