Novelette
Number of words : 9000
Percent of complex words : 5.7
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 10.1
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 6.3022
Flesch : 81.4052
Flesch-Kincaid : 4.4050
SETTING
Pennsylvania farmhouse
"For eighty-three years it had stood in the green countryside where the shaggy Pennsylvania hills slope down to the meadows of Ohio."
CHARACTERS
Hugh Sherwin
Farmer.
Lucy Sherwin
His wife.
Jane Sherwin
Their small child daughter. Tells her parents a story of angels.
Sam Allerton
A neighbouring farmer.
Richard Allerton
Sam's son. Off with Jane.
Miss Harker
Schoolteacher.
RACES
They
Alien children.
TECHNOLOGY
Crystal
Allows viewing of scenes from other worlds.
PLOT
Two young Pennsylvania children come across some alien kids who have run away, and decide that emulating this to play with them will be fun. When rounded up, the aliens disappear the schoolhouse they are in, so they can have some more fun with the kids. Parents are freaked out about disappeared kids until they find out what has actually been going on.
3.5 out of 5
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