Alien Time: Part 4

By DONNA MALANE, Illustrator RICHARD HORT

Now even though I'm just a kid, I still have a couple of theories about life, and one of those theories is that the world is divided into two distinct groups of people. Either you're the type of person who, when reading that bit about me being visited by an alien, shuts this book straight away and thinks I'm talking a pile of crap, or you're still reading, which I guess you must be to have got to the end of this sentence. It's true I don't have to see the look on your face; the "Oh yeah, sure man' look that the kids at school gave me when they learned about it from Elliot. The point is, if you're still reading then I guess you're at least giving me the benefit of the doubt, which is more than anyone at school was prepared to give me back then. Well, almost anyone.

But I'm skipping too fast now. I'll go back to the beginning like I said. Not the me in nappies beginning, and not the gooey holding-hands parents beginning which was not true anyway, like I said, unless you were Elliot. When I say I'm going back to the beginning, I'm going to tell you about the night it happened. The night I was visited by an alien. Okay?

Publisher: Reed Publishing, $14.95