Around the Universe in Six Feet

Note:  Sorry guys, no Owen today.  Instead, here's a story about another kid I know.


    This story is about a kid who was bored. He got so bored he found the nearest bottomless pit and threw himself into it. He fell the tiresome amount of five feet, and disappeared.
    When he reappeared, he was in space and he wasn’t dead, just floating around. He waved his arms and legs, but it only spun him in circles and made him sick. Next he tried blowing himself around. He blew as hard as he could, but it didn’t do anything at all. A meteor flew by and he stopped mid-blow and stared. It was a very slow and strange meteor. It flew in lazy circles around him. It went round and round, making him sick again. Then it stopped in front of him. It hovered there, motionless and said.
   “What are you doing?”
   The kid stared at the meteor for several minutes before realizing that it had asked him a question.
   “Oh, uh, I’m blowing myself someplace.” He thought the meteor was staring at him, but since it didn’t have a face he couldn’t tell for sure.
   “You’re going real fast.”
   He nodded. “Yeah, I know.”
   “You want a ride?” The meteor asked.
   “Sure!”
   “Hop on.”
   “Okay.”
   Without further ado, the kid hopped onto the meteor. As soon as the kid had taken hold, the meteor streaked off into space. Lucky the meteor had plenty of handholds, so the kid didn’t fall off. His transport flew up, faster and faster, then plunged straight down, into the black darkness of space. Then it shot off towards the sun.
   “Look out!“ The kid yelled.
   “Why?” The meteor asked.
   “If we hit that, we’ll be crispified!”
   “No we won’t.”
   The meteor laughed as it headed straight for the sun. As it streaked closer and closer the kid screamed in fear, but the scream was lost in the empty space of space. They hit the sun and went right on going. There was a whole other world inside the sun. It was amazingly bright; everything was crystal clear, no clouds, darkness or shadows. Just light, everywhere and everything was pure light. The kid stared in amazement. There were light-people dancing around everywhere inside the sun, with no gravity of any kind. They floated, bounced, jumped and ran all over the place.
    The meteor went in a slow circle, all the way around the inside of the sun. Then it shot up and burst outside, back into space. This time it headed directly for the planet Jupiter. It looked so small from the sun, but as they got closer, it grew bigger. They were in and out of it, poof! Just like that, streaking into the unknown beyond.
    The kid saw another planet in the distance. It was big, it was huge, and it looked a lot like, Earth. The meteor had pulled a super sharp u-turn as soon as they had entered Jupiter and shot back to Earth. It slowed as they approached, until they were hovering above the earth.
   “Why didn’t you bust into it?” The kid asked.
   “Because I can’t.” The meteor answered. “If I did, we’d be flatter then pancakes.”
   “Oh. Well, what now?”
   “Now you get off.”
   The meteor performed a quick flip and the kid fell the amazing amount of one foot and hit the bottom of the six foot cliff.