was not positive. She gets Highlights magazine, and she LOVES it. After it comes in each month, we don’t see her for a couple of days. Okay, that’s an exaggeration, but she does love this magazine. She saves all her issues and rereads them regularly.
This issue, however, had a science fiction short story in it. Hannah came to me with it and said, “Mom, this story is scary. I don’t like it.”
I took a look, and it was about a space crash involving a human boy and his alien friend. I gave Hannah a short explanation of science fiction literature, also telling her that some people like it and some don’t.
“Well, I don’t.”
Then she began asking a bunch of questions.
“Mom, it says that oxygen is as deadly to him as sulfur dioxide is to humans. What’s sulfur dioxide?”
I explained.
“Well, is that what aliens breathe?”
Aliens don’t exist.
“Well, would they breathe it if they did exist?”
I don’t know.
“But if aliens did exist, then we would be aliens to them!”
Good point.
“I’m not an alien!”
Another good point.
She continued on from there, and only stopped when she’d gone through all of her beefs with the story. I have a feeling that it’s going to be a long time before Hannah seeks out more science fiction…
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