Month: March 2023

I overheard a lot of conversations on Earth. Humans talk all the time, and while some of them tend to rattle on about very little all the time, others say a lot in few words. I rarely took note of them, but I noted a lot of chatter between Sandra and Nick that afternoon in…

“And this,” Irving said, lifting a shimmering black snake with a red underbelly out of an enormous glass tank, “is a red-bellied black snake. The name is self-explanatory. It’s venomous and very common, but unlikely to bite. This beautiful girl just got milked this morning, and she’s sweet as anything, so I can take her…