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“It’s an almost perfectly straight line, Doctor Foster. That’s why the three messages happened to arrive so close together even though they originated so far apart. And that last one — the close one, the quiet one — specifically mentions a yellow sun. That could be a coincidence, sure, there are a lot of yellow suns out there.  But I don’t think so.” He released a tight breath. “Charles, they aren’t just getting closer ... I think they might be coming here .”
    All at once, Charles understood why Sam the Universal Translator had kept this to himself at first. This was huge . The Taalu — their “cousins,” the Arthians — might be coming to Earth.
    As a member of SETI and a lifelong dreamer, it was the most exciting news he could have possibly imagined.
    But as a husband, a father, and a man living in a world that had already gone crazy five years ago with the Paranormal Effect ... it scared him.
     
     
     

YESTERDAY
     
     
     

THE PARANORMALS TODAY
    BY JEFFREY LAWRENCE
    6TH GRADE - MISTER RAGLAND
     
    Hello. My name is Jeffrey Lawrence. I am a 6th-grader in Mister Ragland’s class. Last year I wrote an essay for Miss Wallis’ class about the Paranormals, and I must have done a good job because Miss Wallis turned it in to the Principal and they ended up having a whole big meeting about it and even passed out copies at the P.T.A. (that’s for Parent-Teacher Association) and everything. But the best part is, I got an A+!
    Now the school has a regular P.T.A. meeting every 9-weeks to talk about the Paranormals and how kids are handling it and if there are any kids who have turned Paranormal in our school (there was a kid named Richard Anyon who disappeared a few months ago, and the rumor was he had turned Paranormal but it turned out his Dad had taken him away from his Mom).
    Since I wrote the essay that started the meetings a year ago, Mister Ragland asked if I would write a new one, to share my feelings and thoughts about what all has gone on and changed for the past year. I told him I would if I could do it instead of reading this boring book he gave us for English. He said he would think about it so I wrote this right away to convince him.
    It has now been almost 6 years since the White Flash happened and people started changing. For a long, long time a lot of people who got powers from the Paranormal Effect used their new powers for crime. The Government put together a group called the P.C.A. (that’s for Paranormal Control Agency) to fight the super-powered criminals, which are called Rogues . I thought it was sad that no one wanted to be a super-hero instead.
    The best part is, I put that in the essay and I got my wish! A real live super-hero finally showed up! His name is Vortex . He can shoot lasers and some kind of pressure stuff from his eyes and he’s really tough and he can kick as high as my Dad’s head. His costume is black and gold and a little shiny all over, and it has a cape and everything. His symbol on his chest is kind of weird (my big brother calls it a “trippy spiral”), but I like it. Vortex helps the police with Rogues whenever the P.C.A. isn’t there, and sometimes he’ll help the P.C.A., too.
    I think it is a very good thing that we finally have some Paranormals wanting to be super-heroes instead of Rogues. Mister Ragland wanted me to talk about how I feel, and that is how I feel. Some people complain that Vortex is a vigilante but I think that’s a lot better than being a Rogue.
    The sad part is that not more people have been following Vortex’s example. Some people have, and that’s cool. There’s a woman in New York City and she can put people to sleep with her voice. She calls herself The Siren, and she helps the police with Rogues. She doesn’t wear a costume, but she wears a mask. There’s also a brother and sister somewhere in Canada who can smell when people are lying, and they have been helping the courts up there and the police when they can. I