WEEK 352
Lights approaching through the trees lit the night and the ground began to shake as...


...large metallic saucer lowered itself from the air.

"Marvelous!" Ronald claimed to himself, catching the whole event on tape. "Simply marvelous!"

For years they called him crazy, a UFO nut. He was made the laughing stock of the whole town, but who would be laughing now? The saucer settled, the ground calmed, the lights on the object flashed in a relaxed pattern. Seconds passed which blended fear and awe. Steam then expelled from the ship, the door split from the middle and revealed it's containments: short, grey little humanoids with large heads and big black eyes. They stared down at Ronald.

Now, what will their actions be? Ronald gulped and waited.

by Derrick Cook, Adiz, KY

...JELL-O. I LOOKED UP AND SAW SNOW FALLING LIKE RAIN. IT COVERED THE GROUND LIKE A BLANKET OF WHITE. AFTER SCHOOL I WENT OUT AND SHOVELED AND SLED IN THE SNOW. MY DOG AND I WAS COVERED IN SNOW. MY DOG AND I HAVE FUN TOGETHER. MY DOG RUNS THROUGH THE SNOW AND I CHASE HER LIKE A RABBIT CHASES A CARROT. HER NAME IS PRINCESS FIONA AND I LOVE HER. WHEN THE SNOW HITS THE TREES IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL. I LIKE THE SNOW.

by Zachary Johnson, Muncie

...the derailed freight train continued its destructive path up the embankment. The people spending the night in this well known homeless campground, had all been awakened from their fitful sleep when the freight train slammed into the commuter train which had become disabled on the tracks. The horrific roar from that initial impact had caused the ground to shutter, but now, as the out of control behemoth sped up the slight rise between the tracks and the campground, the earth trembled as if suffering the effects of an earthquake. Grabbing whatever meager portion of their worldly possessions they could, the campers, clad in their dirty, tattered cloths, fled from the cover under the trees just as the careening locomotive topped the small hill, and began its assault into the sheltered camping area. Most made it safely out of the path of the runaway train. Some were not so fortunate.

by Stewart Lindsay, Buffalo, NY

...Jell-o. I looked up in the sky and it began to snow and it fell fast like rain. My dog and I ran out to the yard and played together in the snow. We got a lot of snow and I like to play in it with my dog.

by Zachary, IN