The Star Beast
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Lummox had been the Stuart family pet for years. Though far from cuddly and rather large, it had always been obedient and docile. Except, that is, for the time it had eaten the secondhand Buick . . .But now, all of a sudden and without explanation, Lummox had begun chomping down on a variety of things not least, a very mean dog and a cage of virtually indestructible stee….Read More
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