She had come to the conclusion that you could

tell a lot about a person by their ears. The way

they stuck out and the size of the earlobes could
give you wonderful insights into the person. Of
course, she couldn't scientifically prove any of
this, but that didn't matter to her. Before
anything else, she would size up the ears of the
person she was talking to.

He wondered if he should disclose the truth to

his friends. It would be a risky move. Yes, the
truth would make things a lot easier if they all
stayed on the same page, but the truth might
fracture the group leaving everything in even
more of a mess than it was not telling the truth.
It was time to decide which way to go.

Her mom had warned her. She had been

warned time and again, but she had refused to
believe her. She had done everything right and
she knew she would be rewarded for doing so
with the promotion. So when the promotion was
given to her main rival, it not only stung, it threw
her belief system into disarray. It was her first
big lesson in life, but not the last.

She closed her eyes and then opened them

again. What she was seeing just didn't make
sense. She shook her head seeing if that would
help. It didn't. Although it seemed beyond
reality, there was no denying she was
witnessing a large formation of alien spaceships
filling the sky.

A long black shadow slid across the pavement

near their feet and the five Venusians, very
much startled, looked overhead. They were
barely in time to see the huge gray form of the
carnivore before it vanished behind a sign atop
a nearby building which bore the mystifying
information "Pepsi-Cola."