Chapter 1: A Letter Home

CHAPTER 1 [PLESKIT] A LETTER HOME (TRANSLATION)
FROM: Pleskit Meenom, on the continually puzzling Planet Earth

TO: Maktel Geebrit, on the too distant and deeply longed for Planet Hevi-Hevi

Dear Maktel:

Well, I have caused another uproar here on Earth.

I suspect that this will come as no surprise to you. I guess I'm not surprised myself. But I can't understand it. It's not as if I'm trying to cause trouble. It just seems to follow me around.

I ask you--who could have guessed that a simple project like trying to enhance Tim's brainpower could have turned into the kind of catastrophe I'm about to explain to you?

I've written down the series of events. As usual, Tim helped. I am also including some transmissions written by the being who was one of the reasons so much went wrong with my science fair project. These were retrieved by members of the Trading Patrol after the unfortunate events I am about to describe were all over. If we had been able to get them earlier, it might have saved a great deal of trouble.

There's even a chapter from Linnsy, for reasons you will understand later.

I hope your life is calmer and more quiet than mine.

Are you ever going to come to visit?

The Fatherly One sends his regards.

I send this story.

Fremmix Bleeblom!

Your pal,

Pleskit

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Excerpted from Zombies of the Science Fair by Bruce Coville
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