I’ve been asked by several people to write another story after the success of the Frankenengine story I wrote the other morning, so for my fans, here goes…
Once upon a time, there lived an alien made of jelly on a planet far away. This alien could transform itself into anything it wanted to just by thinking about what it wanted to become. One day, just for fun, the alien turned itself into a clownish figure of the planet’s ruler, but the ruler didn’t think it was so funny, and banished the alien off the planet and into outer space to spend all of eternity trapped inside of a rock. So for many, many years the jelly alien drifted through innersteller space until finally one day it came upon the earth, fell through the atmosphere and landed in an open field near a small midwest American town. Upon impacting the ground, the rock that imprisoned the alien broke open and it was now free. The first thing the alien saw was a train engine going along the near by railroad tracks pulling a number of cars. Hmmm the alien thought to itself, that must be one of the native life forms escorting others somewhere. If I want to get along here, I’d better transform myself into that form. The problem was it only had enough mass to transform into a very small version of this very large form. Oh well. It was better than nothing at all. So the alien turned itself into an exact copy of what it had seen which just so happened to be an HO size GP-40… But before it could move an inch, a group of kids came along to play baseball in the field. Wow!. Look there exclaimed one of the kids, it’s a cool looking train engine just laying here on the ground that someone either lost or left out here. My dad has a big layout down in the basement at our house where he runs these the boy explains to the others. I’m going to take it home and give it to him as a gift for his up coming birthday… So off the boy goes with what he thinks is an HO scale train engine. Once back at his house, the boy puts the engine into a box and ties a big re
Trainluver–what a GREAT story! Funny and (dare I say) charming. You’ve got a real talent there, keep it up. Now if that alien only had a friend who could land near that railroad museum in Minnesota where they keep the Yellowstone–
Tom [:D][bow]
Thank you Tom. I’ve been writing childrens short stories as a side hobby for about ten years now, and use to write weekly articles for one of the area news papers. I own the copy right on a cartoon character by the name of Bud McMudd (my alter ego) and also a short story/comedy titled Moon Men-both of which are for sale…
As for an alien being that could become a copy of the Yellowstone for you. I wouldn’t mind at all, but those aliens can really be hard headed about things sometimes and don’t want to cooperate until they know what’s in it for them, what the benefits are, if there’s a medical/dental plan involved, etc. I’m sure you understand.
I thought for a minute there, trainluver1, you were going to let the kid in the story bahe train while it was on the layout.!!!
I wonder how many modelers would like to BAhat old engine that runs in spurts and fits and dies…just when you need it…
Another good story. Thanks for posting it.
Thank you JohnT. Like you said, that was my own feelings leaking out as to what I’d like to do to one of my problem causing engines once in a while, but I stop, think it over and make friends with it again like the kid in the story…
Sounds just like one of the stories my dad used to tell me. (His weren’t well prepared either) Takes me back, sort of.
Thanks for the great story,
Matthew
