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 THE GREAT SUNFALL OF SNOWICT 

Siddharth Hariharan

[Siddharth has written and painted "The Great Sunfall of Snowict" at the age of 9. ]
	Every day in Snowict is snowy and the surface temperature is extremely cold for any living being to survive. We, the inhabitants who came from Earth to seek life, live in an underground settlement. We have reason to believe that, since no living creature can survive on the surface, there is life down underground like us.
Tomorrow, if the forecast sage in the big village is right, there will be a sunfall on the surface of Snowict and we were dying in anticipation. Hot snow would pour down and Snowict would sigh and live in peace.
We were prepared with our drills to go up to the surface and see the sunfall when Mayor Ken (leader of the settlement) said, “Oh, no you don’t.” Then Mayor Ken took our drills and broke them. He said, “We are here to find life and I am here to make money”. We broke into a blind fury and screamed at the top of our lungs and broke the roof.

The sun moon appeared and a crevice broke into the sun moon and sunfall fell through the crevice and poured down. The sunfall only lasts one day and our city doctor, Ghuru made a sundial to make it last forever. Ghuru is an old man, so he died of old age. Now the sundial is set to sunfall and only Ghuru could set it back to snow and stop the sunfall.

We felt real hot and ran back into our huts. An alien figure suddenly appeared in our midst. Mayor Ken said,” Wow, there really is life in Snowict”. That magic word ‘life’ affected the sundial and it said “password, life”. And switched to snow. Then the sunfall transformed into snow and the alien said, “zat tis vat I zaz going to complain to youz about”. So, maybe he was going to complain about the sunfall and that their kind was dying because of the heat.

Then began our trip back to Earth. As you know our goal was to find life on Snowict and we needed to get out of this crazy planet. Everyone had a lot of ideas to talk about when we get back to Earth. Now me, the person who has been talking, I am Squim, the town teller. You know this is a great thing to tell people on Earth, our adventures, if anyone believes them.

3u pwMÉ¡, 2003