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

[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.