How to Think Inside the Box

Change or die... Used to the unstable geology of their homeworld, the Loongunis need constant fluctuations in order to thrive. However, their human visitors hate the endless moves of their traveling Box. When a sabotage impairs the shift engines, the forced immobility might drive all Loongunis mad.unless their translator can work out a solution!*Science fiction adventure at its best, told by multiple award-winning author Michèle Laframboise.
If you like first contact stories featuring an alien POV, this one is for you! A chunky 7000-word SF story.*-- When things go haywire (...) the psychological and mathematical elements of the tale come even more to the fore and they are quite interesting. Featured Futures--The author does a good job narrating from the point of view of an alien who thinks in very different ways from a human. Victoria Silverwolf, Tangent Online