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instead completing an extra credit assignment. My suggestion had been a book report, but I left the proposition intentionally vague, hoping to see if he would come up with something on his own.
     
    He did.
     
    Upon reading his essay — an effort that took him a mere two days to complete and return to me — I felt that perhaps we would all benefit from reading it. It offers us an insight into how our youth perceives these frightening times in which we now live, times that we could not have imagined (or, perhaps, could only have imagined) at Jeffrey’s age, but that our children and grandchildren will now grow up without knowing anything else.
     
    It is my further suggestion that we consider setting aside a day as soon as possible to discuss the paranormals with our student body as a whole.
     
    Perhaps together we can find a light at the end of this increasingly dark tunnel.
     
    Barbara Wallis
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

THE PARANORMALS
     
    BY JEFFREY LAWRENCE
     
    5TH GRADE - MISS WALLIS
     
    Almost 5 years ago, the Seven Stars appeared in the sky. The White Flash that followed their appearance scared a lot of people, but the White Flash did a lot more than people first realized.
     
    Scientists still have not figured out exactly what the White Flash was. Some say it was a kind of radiation that we have never seen before that caused mutations. Some people think that maybe God or the Devil did it, but the Scientists won’t listen to that explanation. They also can’t figure out if the Seven Stars just came into existence, or if they were always there and the Earth just could not see them until now. The people who work for S.E.T.I. (that’s for "Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence") have also started picking up strange sounds on their big radios, but so far no one can agree on what they are or what they mean.
     
    More important, though, is what has happened here on Earth. Some people were changed by the White Flash, something the Scientists call the "Paranormal Effect."
     
    Not very many people have been changed by the Paranormal Effect. According to a report on "60 Minutes" last week, the Scientists say that less than 1/10th of 1% of the people of Earth were changed, and less than 1% of those have changes that are any big deal (my Dad heard about a man at his company who could change the color of things; this is not something the Scientists would call a "Class 1," but I think the man got fired from his job, anyway, and that is sad).
     
    Some people were changed right away, and these people had mostly mind powers. Some people hid their changes, so it took a while before the Scientists could start studying them.
     
    After about a year or so went by, other people started changing, too, and some of the powers started getting more and more physical. Some people are really strong, others can run fast or fly or shoot laser beams and stuff from their eyes. After a couple of years, other people even got changed in the way they look (there was a sad story on the Internet about a man who grew bat wings and got burned by his church because they thought the Devil turned him into a gargoyle). The Scientists can’t figure out why some people change and others don’t. Old people, young people, black and white and Asian people, tall people or short people all change. Some babies even change before they are born. The only family members who sometimes change together are identical twins, and Scientists think this is because of something called "DNA," (that’s "DeoxyriboNucleic Acid") and that’s really close together in identical twins. We don’t know if Paranormal parents can give their powers to their kids yet, but the Scientists think it could happen.
     
    People were changed by the Paranormal Effect all over the world, but most seem to be in North and Central and South America. The Scientists think this is because it was nighttime here when the White Flash happened.
     
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