The Tusker Tribune the Student Newspaper of Somers Middle School
The Tusker Tribune The Student Newspaper of Somers Middle School Volume 2, Issue 5 http://somersschools.org/domain/995 Fall 2016 “Uranium” (the prologue) A NaNoWriMo Story Editor’s Note: Somers Middle School Eighth Grad- in the sky! It looks dangerous!" his best friend, ers have been writing novels during the school Andrew, exclaimed. The other kids at the bus yeasr for the NaNoWriMo program. The name is stop, noticing the tension, glanced up and all be- short for National Novel Writing Month. Nitin gan screaming in fear. Seshadri, a Tusker Tribune Staffer, will be pre- Derek looked up. A giant, fiery object loomed in senting his NaNoWriMo entry chapter by chapter the sky, speeding towards Earth. Bits of glowing in the Tursker Tribune. The prologue to his novel, hot material were spewing off of its sides. One “Uranium”, appears today. piece of material narrowly missed his house’s roof. Further down the road, the roof of a neighbor was By Nitin Seshadri burning. Tusker Tribune Obviously, why would- Staff Writer n’t that be dangerous? Derek Derek had thought. "I’m going to use the woken up extremely late UFO detector app I made to this morning. see what in the world this "DEREK!" his thing is," he said to Andrew. mom yelled. Derek quickly fished "Yes, what?" his phone out of his backpack Derek replied, groggy. and launched the app he had "Get up! You’re made to detect objects in extremely late for school. space. This app had had won Come on!" him a recognition from NASA Derek awoke with a start.
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