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    The Dolls
    The Dolls
    The Dolls
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    The Dolls

    By Dee Phillips

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    Children all over the world have been finding ugly rag dolls, and they won’t let go of them. The dolls are changing the children, even killing them. One lone astronomy professor tries to find out why the earth’s children are so obsessed with these dolls and what the future holds in this tale of alien invasion.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDee Phillips
    Release dateDec 5, 2011
    ISBN9781466104525
    The Dolls
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    Dee Phillips

    An English Major at University, Denny (Dee) Phillips loves science fiction and enjoys coming up with new ideas in that genre. Her newest interest is in vampire books. Denny has made a career out of writing website content articles and has researched many different topics. As such, she also has many information books available.

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      The Dolls - Dee Phillips

      The Dolls

      An Alien Invasion Tale

      Published by Dee Phillips at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 Dee Phillips

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes.

      This short story is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This story may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this story with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this story and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      The Dolls

      I guess it wasn’t completely out of order that I was one of the first to notice the phenomenon. After all I was the University’s Astronomy teacher. It was a coincidence that I happened to be in the Observatory with a few of my students that night though. I was helping five of my top students locate the various constellations. I had my eye to the huge telescope adjusting the lens when I first noticed the anomaly. It was barely noticeable really. I was just lucky to have my wits about me.

      As I said I was just fine-tuning the adjustment of the telescope when several small flashes blinked in the night sky where nothing should have been. I almost missed them, and after I did realize they really happened, they were gone again, only to flash again a moment later. I wondered for a minute if it was some sort of military code I was witnessing, like Morse code in the sky. That’s what my first impression was, but I was wrong.

      I must have looked puzzled or distressed or something because Jeremy, one of the students with me, asked me what was wrong. I tore my eye away from the lens to look at him. All of the five kids were looking at me quite obviously bewildered by the expression on my face. I didn’t really take them in though. I was still trying to figure out what I had just seen.

      I returned to the telescope viewer and another split second flash went off. The light seemed as if it came from quite a distance away, farther than the moon’s orbit as far as I could tell. It was just out there, beyond the stars almost.

      Here, look at this. I told Jeremy. I wanted some corroboration, some other witness to back me up; to basically tell me I wasn’t crazy and just seeing things. Jeremy took the viewer and peered intently through the eye piece.

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