Month: July 2023

The World Health Organization, which is the human equivalent of the Interspecies Galactic Health and Wellness Coalition, sent us to India to have Skaalt land. Before I tell the story of Skaalt’s landing and the events immediately after, let me first describe India. It is the most populous country on Earth, and is home for…

“Aren’t you tired?” Isa asked Theresa.Theresa looked up from the debris she was tearing apart. Her hands were sore from gripping the crowbar, and sweat was collecting under her suit. She was the only one still cracking apart metal, looking for valuable computing components and hidden trinkets. All the Lorak had stopped hours ago, and…

I finally got to see a human give birth ten months after I’d first arrived on Earth. Which is, coincidentally, about the length of the human gestation period. The day I landed on Earth, the baby I eventually witnessed being born might have been conceived. We were in Korea when a private hospital reached out…