Fun story, but I am not sure I got the same thing out of it that most people did. I've lived in Toronto, so I ended up focusing more on all the Toronto (and surround cottage country) locations and -isms peppered throughout. The mispronunciation of Yonge Street was off-putting (it's pronounced "Young", as in "not old"). Otherwise, the story was interesting, but I am not sure why, if the aliens came here to collect stories/story poems, they were suddenly ready to leave so unexpectedly. Humans never run out of stories and are constantly making more....