2016Bluestone

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- 16