At Home in the Stars

Everyone loves a trip to the zoo, but not as the exhibit.

Jenny and Alice find themselves on an alien spaceship, the latest specimens in an intergalactic zoo. Their demands for cars, chocolates, and pedicures proves taxing to the alien race, while the people on Earth learn how comfy a lifetime in a space-bound zoo really is. Can Jenny and Alice escape the madness and get back home? Or will they accept their new lives as living exhibitions for aliens?

A short story at approximately 7,000 words, originally published in the Quantum Zoo anthology by D.J. Gelner and J.M. Ney-Grimm.