A Ticket to Ride / Sci Fi Humor / Only $10. When Humans Self-Identify as Aliens. Short

When a galactic peace treaty ends centuries of unauthorized human abductions, alien scientists—desperate to continue their research—get crafty. One cunning extraterrestrial launches a fleet of carnival booths offering spaceship rides...with a catch hidden in the fine print. As thrill-seeking Earthlings unwittingly volunteer for relocation to the aliens’ home planet, the tables turn, and humans begin to colonize worlds they were never meant to see. They begin self-identifying as aliens. Satirical, thought-provoking, and eerily plausible—A Ticket to Ride is a sci-fi short story that blends identity politics with cosmic mischief.