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]

CONGRATS on your excellent survival skills in the face of changes a depressed lemming would counsel earnestly against.

I am smoking slightly and releasing wisps of coloured steam.

2020: new meds, new job, new carpet. I got left knee osteoarthritis for christmas, and now have a lower bed :p Going to start picking my life back up and adding evidence of personhood in hopefully sensible ways.

Re: I ATE'NT DEAD

[sara]

oooh, osteoarthritis. It's so fun getting older. I mean it's better than death but. Yay new job and new carpet and I hope new meds are working well.