The Space Boy

St. Joseph's Primary School, P6
June 20 2019

A long time ago there was an alien called Mike who lived in space. When he was a baby, his planet was destroyed by demons. Mike and his twin were sent to Earth in an escape pod. When the pod crash landed, they got separated. Mike bumped his head really hard and forgot a lot about his past life.

Mike now lives in an old lady’s house where he crash landed. Mike had a bike and he liked visiting the junkyard to find scrap metal to build a rocket because he liked space.

One day he found a dog in the trash trying to find food. The dog was afraid of Mike because humans had killed his siblings. Mike gave him a piece of meat and that allowed him to trust him. Mike gave him a collar and called him Russell, because he had made a bed in a Russell shop box.

Mike always felt different from everybody else. One day he was in the junkyard and he wanted to lift a big piece of metal and he wished he was something stronger, like a gorilla or…