NEWS
The Intergalactic
Space Chronicle
Santa's Dilemma
By Louise Farfell
The elves at the North Pole have reported they are ready to make their deliveries. Toys, clothing, and goods are already packed and ready to go. All the Santa clones are healthy. They've had all their flu shots, and they have been guzzling down orange juice smoothies to be fit for the flight. However, they have been allowed a few puff pastries, after all what's Santa without a jiggling belly.
The elves reportedly are also in good health and ready for the big trip.
The androids who help are also in top technical shape and are ready to tour the heavens.
Almost all the cloned and original reindeer are doing fine, but the last group of "Rudolph's" cloned in a lab near an experimental hallucinatory drug factory have noses that don't light up. These bright noses are necessary to light the way, and these Rudolph's are presently being repaired at another factory nowhere near the drug factory. Hopefully, they will be ready on time for Christmas Eve.
Over the last 50 years the bags have become lighter as much of the high-tech toys children are requesting are much smaller than toys of "yore", some as small as a ring (rings you can watch movies from). But as we trim one task we tend to take on others, and long before he retired Santa had been traversing space to deliver to distant space stations and nearby planets. So the cloned Santa's have their work cut out for them, and the reindeer must be very fit.
The Universal Weather Station has warned of a severe solar storm around Christmas Eve. The Santa's dilemma is whether to deliver before or after the storm. They don't want to endanger the reindeer, but they also don't want to disappoint children in our universe.
They've asked us to take a poll (no pun intended) among our readers. We'd like to hear your opinions and suggestions, and we will transfer them to the Santa's.
We at the paper believe that with the joy and celebration beginning already in October, if the public agrees, a day or two difference will not make a difference.
