Incident on Sugar Sand Road and other stories

Two teenagers meet aliens in backwoods Florida, and they enlist a drunken science-fiction writer to help them tell the world about it. A serpentine being in a far-future galactic realm is revered for his wisdom and serenity. An ancient computer network unites disparate civilizations all across the stars--but who were its builders? Five far-flung tales from a committed new full-time writer.