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It was a cold day in June. I hurried home after my shopping which had left my spirit high

and purse depleted . It was dark. I walked on the sidewalk before entering my garden
pathway. It was chilly and I was very hungry, so I hurried to my house.

Just as I walked up the steps that led to the doorway, a sudden dazzle hit my eyes. A
torrent of light had capsized upon the house and I felt the glow of a thousand suns. The
glaring white blinded my eyes. I dropped my shopping bags around me and shielded my eyes
as I stood still panic-stricken.

Looking up, I saw a fascinating sight. It was a UFO. It was an exact replica of the ones in
comic books and fiction movies, so I couldn’t possibly have mistaken it for anything else.

depleted : exhausted
torrent : fast moving stream of water
capsized : overturn
replica : an exact copy
enormous : very large Have you ever seen any UFO?

At the same instant I felt a tug at my saree pallu. I was wonder-struck at the sight of an

alien, very humanoid in appearance. And of course he was sea green, as they were always
portrayed and he stood there with his strange enormous eyes straining to see me. His eyes
were watery with rainbow shades floating in them very strangely. He wore a glowing silver

metal helmet which was actually his head. The antennae (like the two tentacles found on
the head of a snail) glimmered and shone in florescent shades of green and red as though it
were traffic lights.

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