Marty Fisk doesn’t like school. In the schoolroom he sits in the back row of desks and either falls asleep or writes about his heroes on his Smartphone. Who are his heroes? Well, there’s Captain Dan Dazzle of the Planet Patrol and Rik Reddi, the super secret agent from D.A.S.H.I.N.G. and possibly more.
Nothing seems to run smoothly for Marty. There’s his schoolteacher, Mr. Blu. Something is very strange about him, and it’s not the extra long sentences he enjoys giving to Marty. No it’s something else, and it’s up to Marty to discover everything there is to know about the mysterious Mr. Blu.
Lack of money caused the school district to close down two schools. The one I am now in has no lunchroom which means we eat in the classroom. So when lunch period arrived we all left the room to wash our hands before we opened our lunches.
Everybody was talking like mad except me. I hunched over and chewed on my peanut butter sandwich. Time stood still until I saw something that made me doubt my senses.
Mason Dugan was slowly trying to peel a hardboiled egg and still have some left to eat. His face was all wrinkled up, and his eyes, in those thick bottle glass lenses he is forced to wear because of his poor eyesight, were really determined. After a minute a satisfied look crossed his face telling me the egg had been conquered. He reached for salt and pepper and began sprinkling the egg with a thick layer. At the same time Mr. Blu walked by his desk, sneezed and turned completely blue in the face. It was the brightest blue I have ever seen. I shook my head. I couldn’t have seen what I saw. Maybe my science fiction imagination was beginning to do strange things to me.
