This is my tribute to Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. It appeared in a short form (4,000 words) in Daily Science Fiction and in longer form (7,000 words) in the collection Near+Far.
It made the Tangent Online 2012 Recommended Reading List.
(science fiction, flash fiction) When Bjorn and his fellows were selected to supply context for the alien overlords who kept insisting they were just there for the Earth’s own protection, he’d expected something different.
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