9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for September 28, 2008

Transcript:

It is a story of savagery, of war...of words that led to other words that led to an ultimatum- a line drawn in the glistening sands of a galaxy: a story of powers so great and so intemperate that a planet system and it's entire populace were held hostage against a demand to capitulate... And when the demand was spurned, the sun that bound these worlds, these peoples, these ancient civilizations together, was deliberately lanced, thrown into a mighty chain reaction of self-annihilation... ...A vast armagedon of immeasurable violence... ...Swallowing an entire sector of matter and space and time...and on another planet, far, far away. This armageddon was witnessed in the distant night sky, and a voice, marking the moment for eternity, called out in teh silence, and said... 'twinkle twinkle little star...'