What Lurks Beyond

There is an eeeevil force out there, I know it. Slowly creeping up, shoving stars out of orbit, tearing galaxies in half, taking on the whole universe in a desperate battle between life and death. Soon, all will be CHAOS as not a single object in the universe is within lightyears' help of any other.

I mean, is isn't called Dark Matter for nothing, right?

I could never turn that into my own story though - it reminds me far too much of Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet. Most people have probably at least read the first, A Wrinkle In Time. I was first introduced to it in fifth grade, in, of all places, the Ann Arbor Public School System. I believe it was around the same time that the school introduced us to Narnia. No amount of reasoning will lead me to believe that the allegory was as lost on them as it was on me at the time, though years later at age twenty-one it was easy enough to pick up on. The end of the series gets a bit strange in my opinion, but I'd still recommend the bunch for elementary age science fiction lovers.

Plus, she did a much better job portraying the evil element than I just did. Trust me on that one.