Muse: The magazine of science, culture, and smart laughs for kids and children

LETTER of the MONTH

Fan-Tastic Fan Art

I hope you like my art! I drew it on a computer program.

—KEREN T.

I love it! And we can finally put an entry on these critters into our dimensional guide!

—AARTI

Urgent Message!

Our job is to stop threats so weird that everyone else overlooks them. Right now, we have a serious problem. My spies have found out that an army of aliens that look like a cross between a purple squirrel and a vicious marshmallow that call themselves the Barbaric and Unacceptably Rowdy Platoon of Scoundrels (BURPS—at least their name isn’t any better) have an evil plan to eat all of the gummy bears on the planet. If they eat enough gummy bears, they will become more insane than ever before, and start dancing so crazily that everyone who looks at them will be permanently blind, and the to unite, we can use our knowledge to invent a bibbskartigorsh to pricklegew into yopidong astiork. Then, we can use a tredgeelorp so we can wertyminion without habblenabble and defeat them once and for all. Remember, if you don’t publish this letter, my message won’t spread, we won’t be able to stop the BURPS, and no one will be able to read again. Whoever reads this, if you have the courage to be a part of this noble team, meet at Charklepoggifrishkadoop on Spagetoplakitormigan and we will get to work.

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