Dinner on Cassitos - A Flash Fiction story
Three days into the invasion, humans were exhausted and repelled from what they had seen. After they had annihilated most of aliens on Cassitos, it was relatively easy mopping up the balance civilian population. What they did not realize was that the aliens were very unlike humans.
It all started when they had sent a peaceful mission planetside. The aliens had been very welcoming and friendly. Things had progressed rapidly after that until some of their customs became apparent to the visiting human delegation.
Xenophobia had spread on Earth; the aliens had actually eaten the ambassador and his entourage. It was their custom on Cassitos to make sacrificial offerings of tribesmen from another clan, and they had just assumed...
The response by the humans had surprised and shocked the aliens. It had repelled them. Things had taken a nasty turn after the first wave of attacks. The aliens were intelligent enough to realize it was a cultural mistake. They had apologized. It was already too late....
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