Alien Time: Part 3

By DONNA MALANE, Illustrator RICHARD HORT

But anyway, I'm not sticking to the point, which is what Joanne, my mum, tells me I don't do all the time. "Try to think in a more linear way, Jasper,' is what she says to me when I'm trying to explain something really, um, not linear. I wonder if Einstein's mother ever told him to think in a linear way? I don't think so! Tell you the truth, I still haven't figured out exactly what she means. I just know from her voice it's something I don't do. One of the things I don't do.

The point is, that's not what I mean by the beginning. When I talk about starting at the beginning, I mean telling you about the night I was visited by an alien.

Publisher: Reed Publishing, $14.95