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    Joe's Milky Way Cafe
    Joe's Milky Way Cafe
    Joe's Milky Way Cafe
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    Joe's Milky Way Cafe

    By Linda Jordan

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    Stella waits tables at Joe's, the hot place to hang for alien tourists. Her hands full with serving customers, she meets a Senumian.

    Part of the Unity, Senumians remain mysterious. The attraction overwhelms Stella.

    She can't catch a break.

    A complex and imaginative world for readers who love science fiction humor.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMetamorphosis Press
    Release dateMar 13, 2019
    ISBN9781386469971
    Joe's Milky Way Cafe
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    Linda Jordan

    Linda Jordan writes fascinating characters, visionary worlds, and imaginative fiction. She creates both long and short fiction, serious and silly. She believes in the power of healing and transformation, and many of her stories follow those themes.In a previous lifetime, Linda coordinated the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop as well as the Reading Series. She spent four years as Chair of the Board of Directors during Clarion West’s formative period. She’s also worked as a travel agent, a baker, and a pond plant/fish sales person, you know, the sort of things one does as a writer.Currently, she’s the Programming Director for the Writers Cooperative of the Pacific Northwest.Linda now lives in the rainy wilds of Washington state with her husband, daughter, four cats, a cluster of Koi and an infinite number of slugs and snails.

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      Joe's Milky Way Cafe - Linda Jordan

      Joe’s Milky Way Cafe

      Joe’s Milky Way Cafe

      Linda Jordan

      Metamorphosis Press

      Copyright © 2012 by Linda Jordan

      Published by Metamorphosis Press

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      Joe’s Milky Way Cafe

      About the Author

      Joe’s Milky Way Cafe

      Stella glared at the customers in Booth 4. Food was flying in every direction. A burger flipped up in the air. Spaghetti hit the neon-infused glass that faced the Ave., adding more texture to the glaring headlights and drizzling rain. The clitter clatter of ice cubes hitting the floor undercut the din of conversations across the diner. Happy summer.

      She hated Labyrinthians. On their home planet they ate only liquids. But as tourists on Earth, they wanted to try everything. They didn’t have any of the right appendages to eat hamburgers, let alone spaghetti. She’d have to deep clean the booth after they left.

      Number 20’s up, yelled Joe, the cook and owner of Joe’s Milky Way Cafe.

      Where was Genevieve? She was supposed to be here half an hour ago to help out with the dinner rush. Probably out on a job interview, the little bitch. Genevieve had it made. She had youth, upper middle class parents, and was pretty too. Genevieve was only working her way through college and she’d conned Joe into giving her the schedule she wanted.

      Stella, on the other hand, would probably be working at Joe’s until the end of time.

      She’d never had any of those advantages. Stella worked so she could eat and have a place to live. And if tips were really good, she could go out on the town once a month.

      A Dissian remake of a Duran Duran song spilled out through the speakers adding to the clinking and the chatter, the scraping of metal chairs on the

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