My dinosaur

By Angela Berrett

The Angelamongasaurus(de’moffkik)

My dinosaur used to eat a very rare bird that is found under the moon’s cheese. Since you probably don’t understand that, I’ll tell you where to find my dinosaur. The mongasaurus is found lurking in the star cluster of Alpha Centauri on the planet Kiff (Galaxy Nergd) ’s green moon, Cheesepuff. This dinosaur rarely likes to be seen, so it spends its time burrowing and making all sorts of strange tunnels underground. Scientists have not found the dinosaur, and if they did, they’d panic. I think that’s another reason why my dinosaur likes to burrow around underground, to escape nerdy scientists.

Now, about that bird. The bird my dinosaur eats is a strange one. It’s called the mimbo bird. Mimbo birds used to live on Earth, but they have psychic powers and foretold that strange and evil things would happen there (such as D-Day and Armageddon), so they flew to the nearest star cluster, where they dug their homes under the moon’s cheese, just where the dinosaurs live.

Even though the birds could foretell the future, they were stupid. They knew there were dinosaurs on planet Kiff, but didn’t take time to figure out where they lived. So, naturally, a dinosaur caught one, served it to his family for dinner, and they found it as a very good treat. So, word spread to other families that it was good, so the bird went on the dinosaurs’ main menu every day. The bird got rarer and rarer, until it became extinct. But then, suddenly, mimbo birds’ ghosts started to pop up out of the ground and scare the dinosaurs out of their wits. So now they just eat plants.

These dinosaurs lived in strange burrows that could go on and on for miles. The typical family cave had a very far tunnel that everyone could hide in if there were any mimbo bird ghost sightings. Also, there was the occasional scientist that popped up from Mars, or Elcythtin (Galaxy Miletheo), or Pyxtikkolk (Galaxy Ergbigt), or wherever. No dino wanted to be found by scientists, because of what happened a long time ago. By Earth years, in 1492 A.D., just as Columbus was landing in Haiti, a scientist by the name of Forg Boogis from Pyxtikkolk discovered the planet Kiff and the green moon. As he was taking a soil sample, he came across the hidden door to a dino burrow. He explored further and stumbled across a dino by the name of Moo. Unfortunately for Moo, the scientist had tranquilizer darts. Moo was shot and taken back to be examined. Whenever mother dinos want to frighten their children to stop them exploring on the surface, they tell the story of "Unfortunate Moo."

These dinos loved to play Marco Polo in their swimming pools. They had heard over their scientific eavesdropper transmitters some English kids playing this in a kiddie pool once. The dinos considered it their favorite water game. One dino would yell "Marco!" and everyone else would bellow back "Polo!" The Marco dino had a blindfold on. "Marco" was supposed to be able to tag dinos without seeing them. If he couldn’t find anyone, he could yell Marco so his friends could yell Polo. When they yelled "Polo," the Marco would be able to tell where the others were by the sound of where their voices were.

Then, suddenly, everybody died.