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People think I’hts I’ve seen theht swirling through the air The patches are different sizes, so as a cereal box All sorts of shapes - octagons, triangles, decagons Some have thirty or forty sides I don’t know the naon?

No circles All of the patches have at least two straight edges There are a feith curves or seinable Solow dully Occasionally a few of the lights pulse, but norer I didn’t know the lights were strange I thought everybody saw theht I was playing a ga attention It was only when I started school and spoke about the lights in class that it became an issue My teacher, Miss Tyacke, saw that I wasn’t hts

Miss Tyacke called Muested they take hts signified But Mum’s never had much time for psychiatrists She thinks the brain can take care of itself She asked hts at school, but otherwise she wasn’t concerned

So I stopped talking about the lights, but the da the children - Kernel Fleck is weird He’s not like us Stay away from him

I never made many friends after that

My name’s Cornelius, but I couldn’t say that when I was younger The closest I could get was Kernel Mu it instead of my real name It stuck and now that’s what everybody calls me

I think some parents shouldn’t be allowed to name their kids There should be a committee to forbid names which will cause problehts, what chance did I have of fitting in with any normal croith a name like Kernel - or Cornelius - Fleck!

We live in a city Mum’s a university lecturer Dad’s an artist who also does so than drawing, but whenever anyone asks, he says he’s an artist) We live on the third floor of an old warehouse which has been converted into aparts I soiant’s castle

Dad’s very good with his hands He s the When they start to clutter the place up, or if we just get the urge one lazy Sunday afternoon, the pair of us make bombs out of apples, conkers - whatever we can find that’s hard and round - and launch them at the planes We fire away until we run out of ammo or all the planes are destroyed Then Dad sets to work on new ’s about a third full

I like it here Our apartreat; we’re close to lots of shops, a cool adventure playground, alore School’s OK too I don’t- we have a first-rate lab, a projection rooet beaten up - I roar autoood news for bullies who don’t want to attract attention!

But I’ life I’m lonely I’ve always been a loner, but it didn’t botherby myself I read lots of books and coinary friends to play with I was happy