Alien Aileen: Down and Out in New Australia

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. Enter into this novella Aileen, a trans-morph 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, 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 planet 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 is to meet Death, does Jack finally realize that there is someone that he really truly loves...himself.

66 pages, Paperback

Published June 18, 2010