All I Need to Know about the Earth, I Learned in Kindergarten

By Kira Bacal

When an extraterrestrial takes refuge on the Earth, a good hiding place is paramount, and where better than among macaroni art and Captain Underpants books?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kira Bacal
• Release date: Feb 7, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466057449

Kira Bacal

Trained as a physician and scientist, Kira Bacal has worked at NASA-Johnson Space Center and the U.S. Senate as well as with the U.S. military. She qualified in two medical specialties and has numerous professional publications in medical and scientific journals and texts. For her fiction writing, she was named the “Best Newcomer Author” in the January 2009 international Quibbler Awards and had one story win both “Best General” and “Best Chemistry” categories in the same awards. This same story, which appeared online, has enjoyed some recent popularity, with over 2,500,000 hits (and counting) from readers around the globe, primarily the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, and Europe, but also places from Singapore to Botswana, Saudi Arabia to Guatemala. Kira has also been a quarterfinalist in the “Writers of the Future” contest and runner up for the Higney Award at the magazine Another Realm. She currently lives in New Zealand with her children and a large, vandalism-prone Leonberger.

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All I Need to Know about the Earth, I Learned in Kindergarten

Kira Bacal

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Copyright 2012 Kira Bacal

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It was a beautiful, sunny day. Birdsong mingled with the happy shouts of the children as they fled their daylong incarceration in the schoolhouse for the school buses and home. It looked like a frigging Hallmark commercial, and I should have known that the god of irony couldn’t pass it up.

It wasn’t entirely my fault that things progressed as far as they did. I was distracted by Johnny Rogers’ trying to eat the dried macaroni off Angelita Ramirez’s Mother’s Day card. Angelita retaliated by thumping him over the head with her bookbag, and the thermos inside bonked him hard enough to make him cry. That prompted Angelita to start crying out of fear of being blamed, her best friend Emma to start crying out of loyalty to Angelita, and Tommy Washington to try filching the rest of the macaroni.