Restaurant menus haven't changed since I was a kid, and surely long before that. A little more in the way of linking foods with similar taste appeal would go a long way towards selling new dishes to people.
Figures we'd have to leave it to aliens to do it!
Chapter 5 --
The transport pulled into a large chamber, sailed across a startlingly vast open area, and settled to a stop in a cradle that appeared to be floating in the exact center. Charlie and the others stared in wonder through the transparent nose of the little car, taking in the immense place with just a bit of unavoidable awe.
"Um, that's huge," Adrian said quietly, his eyes trying to go everywhere at once.
"Ginormous," Ricky added, nodding. He grinned at Charlie. "L
The chapters are set to post automatically at 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM EST. The new story queue seems to take a few minutes to refresh and show it each time, though.
The last chapter posts Sunday. I made them a little longer so that I could get them all posted by the holiday.
Interesting start to this tale. The world you've only begun to illustrate would seem to be complex. Not easy to immediately grasp its dimensions.
That makes it fun!
Chapter 4 --
"It had to be these guys!" Ricky hissed through clenched teeth, as the view moved around the intruder's encampment. The Moth were hard at work, obviously building a base from which to operate. There only seemed to be the one ship, built in the same design as their own Lollipop before Max had disguised its appearance, yet far larger in size. The numbers of Moth moving about were in line with their ship's size, and Charlie counted over forty of the aliens before he thought
Thank you, and nice of you to say so. I'm still waiting for the eventual mail from someone that says, "Sigh. This series is boring the crap out of me!"
Maybe not. The guys buy stuff at the market all the time. Usually, they wind up in future stories!
Earth has a lot of great stuff. And, some not so great stuff. I prefer to enjoy the great stuff and pay less attention to the not great stuff.
Leaves some things undone sometimes, but makes me a hell of a lot happier!
Some teachers have a timelessness about them that makes their classes seem endless. And, some subjects ARE endless.
My favorite classes in school were the ones that interested me, of course. The others were clock-watchers. Amazing how long it can take that second hand to go around ONE time!