Happy Snak by Nicole Kimberling

[samvara]

Sweet, fun, a little bit goofy, first-contact science fiction with a tang of earthy (heh) pragmatism.

Gaia Jones just wants to run a snack bar and what better place to do it than the giant alien facility built by their brand new... 'friends?' from outer space. Her somewhat antisocial life-style takes a hit when she assists an alien with an illness and inadvertently takes on a lot more than she expected.

Mad points for plausible interesting aliens and alien contact.

Comments

Re: I ATE'NT DEAD

[samvara]

Holy January Batlady. Here's to bodies working and continuing to work in all possible ways.

Re: I ATE'NT DEAD

[sara]

Pfahaha yeah, January is fired. Honestly the last three years are fired. The entire Trump Administration has sucked balls for both me personally and the nation as a whole.

Re: I ATE'NT DEAD

[samvara]

Ugh. Yes. the Oz govt is no better and even more disgusting in certain ways.

Re: I ATE'NT DEAD

[sara]

...yeah whatever else That Bad Man has done he hasn't burned up what a quarter of the continent.

I think mostly that's because he's got no direct responsibility for wildland firefighting, mind you.