Beam Me Up: Bedtime Tale
by Dan Jones
This is a bedtime story about you as a child in a cabin, listening to your granddad begin to tell a story from his youth about the time he encountered aliens. He shares how he was tending to his pumpkins when an alien craft beamed him up. He found himself in a dark room, found a door out of that room into what looked like a normal Earthly landscape, but was a land within a dome. He found his way to a tunnel and managed to escape the dome and enter the main part of the ship, exploring for a while, before escaping back to Earth with some items he said he keeps in his safe. He finishes telling this story to you. You don't know whether to believe him or not. After you are in bed, he opens the safe, looks at the items in the safe, smiles, closes the safe, and heads outside to the back porch for a while, gazing up at the stars, breathing in the fresh air, before heading to bed where he drifts asleep to Slumberland.
