Sweet Tooth

When a pair of hulking, metal‑scaled creatures descend on a quiet stretch of highway, they treat the gleaming chrome of a journalist’s convertible as a banquet. Dexter Foote watches, stunned, as the alien beings gnaw and crunch through his car, leaving only smoking slag in their wake. The attack is as bizarre as it is terrifying, hinting at a larger, unknowable hunger that has driven visitors from the stars to Earth’s highways.

After fleeing the carnage, Dexter limps into the dusty town of Sugardale, a place that seems frozen in a slower era where automobiles are a novelty and the local inn teems with weary travelers and curious locals. There he encounters a skeptical housewife, a lone bar patron, and a community that may hold the key to understanding why the extraterrestrials find Earth’s technology so…delicious. The story blends sharp humor with classic sci‑fi wonder, following Dexter’s frantic quest for answers before the next bite comes.