The Dream

One night, about ten-thirty pm., I finally got up from the chair I was sitting in, still discouraged about the encounter with the Martians that afternoon. I climbed into bed and immediately fell asleep and started a dream.

It started out as I was working out in a field, pulling potatoes, and everybody had gone home, and I was the only one left. It was getting dark when I decided to go home and get some rest, and come back tomorrow. So I got into my truck and had just gotten on the main road when I looked around, and there was not a soul in sight, anywhere. Not a headlight or a car anywhere. The moon was getting brighter and the night darker when a flash of blue-faced me. I stopped, got out, and walked to where it was coming from. I had walked into some trees when I saw something that bewildered me. It was a spaceship. I walked to it and touched it. It was kind of greenish red, with lights flashing, except the lights looked more like pumpkins about four feet wide and six feet high.

Just then, I heard something in the bushes behind me. I looked around to see some bushes shaking. Being fascinated, I walked over to the bushes and looked. It was a....a...Martian.

No, it might be a Jupiterian. He jumped up and made a sound that sounded more like a crankety-old car, “a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a.” He said over and over again. Then he did something that kept me stunned and still felt more like a lifetime. He walked over or did something and came over to me and made that sound again as he grabbed my hand and pulled me into the spaceship. I said, “No! I got to get away. I can’t go!” He stopped and pushed a button that made the door close. I tried to get out, but it was no use. It was made out of a certain kind of metal the Earth doesn’t have.

I looked around and almost died. There were about nine- hundred ninety-nine zillion buttons at least, with about nine- hundred ninety-eight zillion lights flashing. It was more like a dance hall. I walked in and pushed a button on the other end of the spacecraft. After I pushed the button, a big screen-like thing opened. I could see my pickup, with my headlights still on and my door wide open. There were still no cars, and it was still dark except for a little bit lightened by the moon.

I pushed another button, and the Martian came over to me and slapped me as he made a sound that sounded like a swarm of wild animals and bees on the loose. He looked at me, and his face turned half-red and half-green. He pointed his finger at me, and a red laser shot out. As soon as you could say Jay Bean, I was levitated in the air about three feet in the air, and I couldn’t get down. I was overtaken by a gas type of air every time I tried to get down. The Martian looked at me, pointed his bony finger at me again, and made a red fluorescent color come out once more. I was overtaken by a bubble-like obstacle that, whenever I tried to get out, would make an electrical shock go up through my body immediately. I stopped.

I looked at him and said, “What is your name?”

He made a sound that sounded more like “Geng-Ho.”

So I said to him, “Alright. From now on, you’re going to be Geng, OK?”

“A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A”, he said again. This time, he sounded like he liked it and immediately made the bubble drop me by making lightning bolts come out of his nose. After this, I looked at his nose, and there seemed to be a hole burned in it.

He pushed a button, and the door opened. He hurriedly pushed me out, as his hair stood up on end and his ears started beeping. He closed the door, and the spaceship went invisible. I felt a cold, swift band of air brush by me. I saw a bright blue light up in the sky. As I watched it go higher, I kept yelling, “Bye Geng! Bye, Geng!”

I walked back to the truck and got on and went home. I looked at my watch, and it said two am.

“Oh my gosh!” I said and sped out. I got home in five minutes. Of course, I only lived ten miles away from the field. I got home and went straight to bed.

I had only slept one minute when the wind had blown open my window. I got up to close it and saw a real bright star in the form of the word "GENG." I almost went crazy. I laid back down, and the wind from the window blew my bed over. I got up and closed the window and laid back down, and I went to sleep instantly.

Later, which seemed like a lifetime, I woke up. The clock said it was ten am.

“I must have slept in, and what a dream I dreamt.”

At that moment, I heard the telephone ring. It was my best friend who wanted me to help him in the fields, digging potatoes. I said, “OK”, then hung up.

Later that day, I picked up a potato, and there was some writing on it. The writing said, “I love you.” And it was signed, Geng.

-Scott Wells

2nd Grade / 1979

8 years old