THE HORRIBLE WAR

by Daniel Dyssegaard Kallick

The year was 20007. The car cat sale was going beautifully. Millions and billions of people had car cats.

One day Alex was walking down the street. He had been noticing that there were a lot of tall men dressed in black suits. No one noticed them except Alex and his friends. He had made new friends on the planet. They were call Brian, Isaac, and Jack.

They all liked Alex's house because it was huge, since he was rich. They discussed the men in black suits at home. Brian and Jack wanted to leave the case alone because they thought the police would find out what was going on. But Alex and Isaac wanted to tell the police. Finally, Brian gave in and said, "Who cares? Why not just call them." So they called 999 and told the police that they saw an extraordinary number of men in black suits. They did not talk and were very suspicious. The police arrested one and searched him. He didn't answer or respond, so they cracked his head open and found that he was a computer! The data it contained was advanced spy equipment. The machine had a tracker and the signal was coming from an unknown planet. The police told the military, and the military sent their own spies to the planet. They didn't come back. So they destroyed the computer men and sent huge military space shuttles to the planet. It turned out that the planet was called Whamachacha, which in English means "The old lady." A big war ensued.

Back home Alex was watching the war with his friends on his huge T.V.

The humans won the war and explored the new planet.

THE END


"The torch has been passed--brilliantly. I tip my hat to young Mr. Kallick, the future of the genre!"
—Arthur C. Clarke


Mr. Dyssegaard Kallick is also the bestselling author of THE GREAT MOVING OF THE EARTH'S POPULATION IN 20,018.

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