Falderol Falls: Enter the Greenmans
(The following story, as always, is not real. The author would like to remind you, however, that feelings ARE real. Please do not discriminate against green people, or their feelings will be hurt. And they will probably exact vengeance in a horrifying way.)
Jason Greenman renounced his family name to be with the woman he loved--Rose Greenman. He didn't even protest when she spawned Daisy.
But the condemnation from the town was too much for him. Rose knew that he was having a hard time, so she suggested they move to a place where no one knew them. Jason happily agreed and the three of them picked up and moved to Falderol Falls.
It was a happy life for the three of them. Daisy spent long hours playing with her toys, walking through the grass outside, and splashing in the tub. Jason found a job working at a gas station that gave him lots of time to spend with his new family and pursue the studies he loved. Rose had a large garden that she tended in all her free time. In time, Daisy grew to be a mature plant woman--perhaps not as humanly beautiful as her mother, but lovely in her own right. She wanted to help her family establish strong roots in their new home, so she opened a business selling party supplies to the masses. In all her dealings with the people that lived around Falderol Falls, she couldn't help but notice that she was a little bit different. She traded in her leaf-strewn clothes for something a little more human-like, but even then had problems fitting in.
She was a little upset and felt self-conscious whenever she opened PartyPartyParty, but she dealt with it as best she could because she'd met a man who seemed to love her for who she was. Gerard even sat straight up in bed when he woke up in the morning if she wasn't in bed with him.
When she was with Gerard, she had silly dreams of a tiny white house on the outskirts of town and making him pancakes for breakfast every morning and cuddling under the stars in the evenings. She didn't want to have children--she didn't want anyone else to feel as out-of-place as she did. She knew that her mother wanted children more than anything else in the world and that kept her from being angry with her mother for spawning her in the first place. At least, it was enough until she walked into the kitchen one morning and her mother introduced her to Philip, her tiny infant brother.
Daisy was flabbergasted. Rose calmly explained that she'd given birth to Philip that morning in the garden and gushed over how beautiful he was. Daisy had always assumed entities like herself and her mother couldn't have human children and that's why she'd been spawned. She nodded and agreed with her mother that Philip was adorable, but secretly she hated him and all that he represented. SHE could have been human! She could have had a normal life! Gone to school! College, even! Gerard tried his best to comfort her, but Daisy decided that she would move out of her mother's house as soon as she could find a place of her own and never speak to her again. She checked real estate listings six times a day, every day, looking for the perfect place.
Other problems were brewing in the Greenman house, though. Jason had recently gotten a promotion at work and he'd used the extra money to buy a nice, new telescope. Night after night he looked through that telescope, studying the stars and trying to figure out the reasoning in the cosmos.
Rose began to harp at him a little because his work performance was beginning to suffer and Philip needed bonding time with his dad more than he needed an intelligent dad. Rose's not-so-gentle reproofs, however, only made Jason spend more time at the telescope. One night, Rose was trying to get her garden weeded, Philip needed attention, the house was a mess, Daisy was on a date with Gerard and Jason was nowhere to be found. Rose sighed and did the best she could coping with everything at once. The next morning, Gerard was filling in some holes that a stray had dug up in the night and he looked up to find Jason seemingly fall right out of the sky.
He ran over and helped Jason up and, after warning him that Rose was upset, asked him where he'd been. Jason opened and closed his mouth half a dozen times, but said nothing.
Finally, he gasped out, "Aliens!" Silence seemed to fall like a blanket. Jason told Gerard that the night before he'd seen something weird through his telescope and, when he'd focused in on it, had seen it get bigger. All of a sudden, something was pulling him up! He'd grabbed onto his telescope for dear life, but eventually he'd been sucked right up into an alien spaceship.
The aliens had done unspeakable things to him. A tear leaked out of his right eye. Gerard was just about to lead Jason back into the house when he heard laughter. He stiffened for a moment before he realized that it was Rose.
"Jason," she gasped, "If you don't want to be part of this family, that's fine. But don't make up such ridiculous stories just to get out of changing a diaper. Aliens, indeed." And with that, she went to work in her garden for the rest of the day.
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