Star SexThe alien who looked like a cactus blinked his prickly pear eyes and made a noise like a screaming cat.
At first, Dinah Ryan wasn't sure that this was a bad thing. For all she and her fellow Earthlings knew about aliens, it could have been a cry of pure ecstasy.
But then, the cactus puked chunky blue slime all over Ben Blakey, which tipped them off. With a noise like a dental drill running at full throttle, Mr. Cactus scooted off to the next booth.
So humanity was still screwed.
"Ah, man!" Blakey flicked slime from his gray jumpsuit and wrinkled his nose. "This stuff stinks!"
"You're telling me." Mahalia Davis darted away from him. "How the hell many of these species communicate by spraying s**t at each other, anyway?"
Dinah grinned and shook her head, tossing her should
