Alien Aileen Ilustrated

by Jael Turner

Jack (the Bull) Splatter, CEO OF Gomennasai Corp of New Japan (Chicago), is handsome, highly successful, a fantastic dancer, and will soon be dead—primarily because he has hired a skilled, unknown assassin to end his absurd life on his thirtieth birthday in the most exotic, stylish way possible. Enter Aileen, a transmorph and an empath, Jack's "last Coke in the desert," who can transform herself to any woman that Jack wants—only problem is that Jack doesn't want what he wants.

Addicted to this alien woman (whom he detests) like a soma addict, Jack is forced to follow her back to her home planet, New Australia, a jack-off planet that is primitive to the extreme (they don't even have orange juice for screwdrivers), where he finds a place that is "like a badly run circus—filled with retarded clowns." Only when Jack breaks away from Aileen and hires a young blond sky hobo in a helio-glider to take him half-way around the planet to Assassins' Swamp where he meets his Death, does Jack finally realize that there is someone that he truly loves—himself.

143 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 12, 2013

Reviews

[Marijan Šiško · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a weird book, but it's good weird, and I recommend it to all weird-book lovers out there.