Dear Steven,
I saw an alien today! Wait. I know what you’re thinking! You’re thinking it’s going to be something stupid, like a car, or a microwave. But it was real! A real alien! I saw it! I was walking home from the post office and I heard it rustling behind the recycling bins at the edge of the park. You know the ones? Clothes, bottles, cans, plastic, stuff like that. I get a lot of my clothes there. You know? The one I got stuck in for five days last summer. Well, I heard the alien rustling behind there. It was looking for something. Now, to be honest, my first thought was that it’s probably a raccoon, or a dog, or something like that. But, then I thought of ET! Have you seen it? There’s that scene where ET makes a spacephone out of the trash and things he finds lying around Eliot’s house. You remember? Well, I thought, it must be that. So, I crept closer. I got really close. I lay down and squeezed myself under one of the bins. I got covered in some pretty yucky stuff, but that’s nothing to an explorer like me. I got so close. I could almost reach out and touch it. Black it was. With white bits. The end of its tail was white. And one of its feet. It had four feet. It was so alien! Furry. I guess it came from a cold planet. It was about a foot tall. Then it saw me, hissed, jumped about four feet over a wall, and disappeared through a bush. I bet its spaceship was through there! You should have seen it jump! There must be lower gravity on the planet it came from! Awesome. Not a bad day!
Your friend
Kevin