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"I knew something was wrong," Harold told the reporters, "when the front door started to..."


...leak!"

"Leak, Mr. Carmichael? How in the world could your front door be leaking?"

Not knowing for sure, but guessing at what he feared, Harold continued with his story. "When Connie and I got home with the kids, Connie told them that it was probably best that the pool at the park was closed because it was a little too chilly to be swimming. The kids looked at each other, smiled, and I heard Teddy say something to Emma that sounded like indoor pool."

"Oh, Mr. Carmichael, you expect us to believe that..." The reporters question was never finished, as she and all the other reporters gathered on the front lawn, watched in amazement, as Teddy and Emma slowly dogpaddled from one side of the bay window to the other, in what appeared to be waist deep water!

"It was indoor pool", moaned Harold.

by Stewart Lindsay, Buffalo, NY

...bulge in and out, almost like it was breathing."

"And when you looked out, Mr. Johnson?" A reporter asked.

"I saw the front lawn doing the same thing: bulging up and down as if it was breathing!"

An excited murmur rippled through the group of reporters and the crowd of onlookers that had gathered on the Johnson lawn.

"And the trees were doing it, too!" Harold Johson said, clearly warming to the attention he was getting. "And the clouds and the street and the mountains and the..."

"Hi, everyone," Harold's wife said, stepping out onto the front porch. "Harold, I think you've taken your dementia medicine three times today by mistake."

"Oh my God!" Harold screamed and pointed at his wife. "Look! Her head is doing the same thing: breathing in and out just like everything else!"

The reporters put away their equipment and started wandering away, shaking their heads.

by Phillip Lynne, Knoxville, TN