This post is here for you to upload up to 250 words - an excerpt - from something you've written. People might like to comment or respond (*note: please follow the rules, be respectful, and focus on what you enjoy about other peoples' writing, when you're responding).
Rules: upload a max. of 250 words of your own writing.
The following is a first line.
Eating spaghetti in space is almost as tantalising as trying to pick up mercury with chop sticks in no man's land.