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- It
slithered slowly across the cornfields, sucking up everything
in its path. Power lines disappeared like spaghetti slurped
into a child's mouth. Telephone poles became nothing more than
toothpicks bit in half and swallowed, sliding deep, deep into
the belly of the monster.
- It devoured
a yellow tractor, an old wooden shed. It ripped corn stalks
from the earth and swallowed the roots and dirt, the water and
irrigation pipe.
- And it
grew larger and larger, leaving a trail of darkness as it circled
Kinetic, California.
- No one
in town knew it was coming. No one in town realized that they
would soon be food for the monster. It needed energy. It needed
power. And when it devoured everything, it would move on.
Collin
stared at the big fat "F" on his science test. He
picked up his pen and added another red line to the right hand
side of the "F," the grade that would make his dad
shake his head and utter those words he'd heard over and over
again: "Another F, huh Collin?" One of his dad's bushy
eyebrows would raise and one eye would squint. It was the evil
eye, and Collin saw it every time he took a science test. "One
of these days you're going to regret how little attention you
pay in class," his dad would say in that deep, lecturing
tone. "One of these days you just might need to know about
photosynthesis and thermodynamics. You might even need to know
about potential energy or why this town was named Kinetic."
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