num_pages: 20
description: Zumblefroth may be a giant godlike alien from a species of giant godlike aliens, but that doesn't change the fact that he's a total wimp. He just wishes that his jerk of a big brother, Vaargnhlu, didn't have to rub it in so much. But one day when Vaargnhlu decides to make Zumblefroth feel like crap over the fact that he has conquered his own planet and Zumblefroth hasn't, Zumblefroth decides to change that. Zumblefroth decides to go out and conquer.H.P. Lovecraft meets Arthur C. Clarke meets Adult Swim in the absurdist sci-fi comedy short story "Even Wimps Can Be Alien Overlords" by Ben Fitts, author of fiction collection My Birth And Other Regrets (released by Nihilism Revised in 2019).
language: English
title: Even Wimps Can Be Alien Overlords