🎙️ E.J. LeRoy

Read E.J.'s story, Moon to Moon FM, on Foofaraw now!

Do you believe in any conspiracy stories?

I question everything, particularly official narratives. That doesn’t mean I “believe in” conspiracy theories. Instead, I tend to simply ignore things that have nothing to do with my daily life as they don’t affect me and I can’t do anything about them anyway.

What are your thoughts about people who believe the earth is flat or that we never went to the moon?

Whether the earth is round or flat or humans ever went to the moon or not really doesn’t matter in my day-to-day life. Nor, do I suspect, it truly matters to most other people. Unless your job is somehow dependent on the actual shape of the earth or space exploration funding, why is anybody fighting about this? Sherlock Holmes expressed a similar sentiment in A Study of Scarlet about not caring whether the earth revolved around the sun or vice versa, and I agree.

Have you ever called into a radio show and been on air?

I have yet to call a radio program, although some of my family members have. My late grandmother in particular frequently called radio stations to win prizes and often did. She also enjoyed listening to a certain nighttime talk show that shall remain nameless. That program definitely inspired “Moon to Moon FM,” as did the fact that my grandmother believed a lot of the interviewed guests’ wild stories.

If the aliens in your story ever landed on Earth, how do you think we—the human race—would receive them?

I unfortunately think that they would receive the alleged Area 51 treatment.

How many planets and moons make up the empire?

I have no idea how many planets and moons make up the Xil’kana Empire. “Moon to Moon FM” was a one-off parody of real-life conspiracy theory radio shows. It never developed into a larger universe. Of course, if I did state the number of planets and moons, conspiracy theorists would probably dispute it.

What other conspiracy stories do you think Thev’nar and Tiyanok believe in?

Thev’nar and Tiyanok probably believe anything to do with government cover-ups about the existence of human beings.

What's a great short story you’ve read recently?

“Real Housewives of the Intergalactic” by HJ Ramsay, published in Translunar Travelers Lounge, is a lot of fun. It is a sweet and hopeful sci-fi comedy that we could use more of in tough times.

What book are you reading right now?

I am reading How to Make Money in Any Market by Jim Cramer because being a writer doesn’t usually pay the bills.

Do you have anything else you'd like to share?

Here is an incoming shameless plug alert for my ongoing sci-fi short story, novelette, and novella series The Intergalactic Misadventures of Henry Trevalu. Henry is the twenty-two-year-old Catholic, aro ace, sole heir and fifty percent owner of Trevalu Intergalactic Spice Company who somehow manages to get knocked around the universe time and time again. Family wealth doesn’t mean much when you get forcibly stuffed into a giant snow marsupial’s pouch, temporarily lose some of your teeth due to an extraterrestrial chewing gum accident, and cheat the death penalty on an alien planet by letting your hermaphroditic cellmate impregnate you with two thousand pseudo-octopus fry, among other interplanetary mishaps. Pleading His Belly on Zakon-4 (yep, the mpreg one) is coming to a galaxy near you in Spring 2026 courtesy of The Whumpy Printing Press.

Thanks to E.J. for talking aliens and conspiracies with us!