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The Alien Neighbors
Stephanie Shelton-Pullen
There was a house on the block that just showed up one
day out of nowhere on what once was an empty lot. The
family was already living in it and they were so very strange.
When they went out they traveled in a flying mailbox. One
day someone saw them eat a tire for breakfast and eat lunch
out of a garbage can filled with real garbage. It was really
gross to watch. This went on for three strange years.
Then one day they flew away. Nobody knew where they
went while they were gone. Then suddenly the mailbox
flew into town three years later and the father of the family
told us that they were going back to Jupiter, because it was
too hot here on Earth.
The following day they told people they were packing, but
none of the neighbor saw any boxes being packed whatso-
ever. So one neighbor went to asked where the boxes were.
The mother said that they were already packed, the neigh-
bor asks where the boxes are. But to the neighbor every-
thing was exactly where it usually was. The father, mother,
sister, and brother told him that they were leaving and he
really needed to go.
So he stepped out and started to walk back to his house he
looked back and began to shake his head. All of a sudden
the family turned off all the lights, except the attic light.
The neighbor watched as the house lifted into the air and
flew into outer space.
Two years later the neighbor got a postcard with a picture
of The Great Red Spot of Jupiter and standing on the
postcard was the family he remembered from living beside
him.
He scratched his head and said, “I thought they were mov-
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