She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.

Never bored on a hoverboard.

A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.

You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

you just took on five million years of evolution again

your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are

Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"