AMI
"CHILD OF THE STARS"



ENRIQUE BARRIOS


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Ami, Child of the Stars
Título Original: Ami, El Niño de las Estrellas

Ami, Child of the Stars
Título Original: Ami, El Niño de las Estrellas
Enrique Barrios
Scanned by: @ Unknown
22/09/03
Dedicated to the "children"
of all ages
and of all places
on this round, beautiful "Nation,"
those future builders and heirs
of a new Earth
without divisions between peoples.


It's not easy to write a book when you're not a writer. It's even harder if you're still a kid. But I have to do it
because a friend from the stars asked me to. His name is Ami.

I'm going to describe the experiences that I was lucky enough to have with him.

He explained to me that in worlds as advanced as his, "adult" or "grown-up" means "person who has lost
contact with the wonder of life," and that there are "grown-ups" who are fifteen and "children" who are one
hundred...

He also warned me that the "adults" were not going to take advantage of this information because it's easier
for them to believe in the horrible, even if it's false, than in the marvelous, even if it's true.

So that I wouldn't have any problems he recommended that I say that it is all a fantasy, a story made up for
children.

So I'm going to say it right here: This is a story...

WARNING

(Directed to "adults" only)
Do not continue reading this; you're not going to like it;
sorry, but what follows is
marvelous.


". . . and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks:
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more"
(Isaiah 2:4)


TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTSTABLE OF CONTENTS

FIRST PART

Chapter

1. First Encounter
2. Flying Jim
3. Don't Worry
4. The Police!
5. Alien Abduction!
6. A Question of Measures
7. Sightings
SECOND PART

Chapter

8. OPHIR!
9. The Fundamental Law
10. Interplanetary Fellowship
11. Under the Water
12. New Times
13. A Blue Princess
14. Until We Meet Again, Ami
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CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 1CHAPTER 1FIRST ENCOUNTER
CHAPTER 1CHAPTER 1

It all started one afternoon last summer in a small, quiet town on the California coast, where my grandma and
I go for vacation almost every year.

Last summer we rented a small wooden house. It had several pine trees and a lot of shrubs in the backyard
and a front yard full of flowers. It was on the outskirts of town, near the ocean, on a path that led towards the
beach.

My grandma likes to go on vacation at the end of summer when there aren't as many people. She says that
it's quieter and cheaper then.

It was beginning to get dark. I was alone on some high rocks near the isolated beach, just watching the
ocean. Suddenly, I saw a red light in the sky above me. I thought that it was a sparkler or one of those rockets
that people shoot off on the 4th of July.

It came down, changing colors and giving off sparks. When it was lower I could see that it wasn't a sparkler or
a rocket because as it grew larger it began to look like a small airplane, or something even bigger...

Without making a sound, it fell into the ocean about 150 feet from the beach, right in front of me.

I thought that I'd witnessed an air disaster and looked up at the sky to see if anyone had parachuted out of the
plane. No one had. Now nothing disturbed the silence and tranquillity on the beach.

I was really afraid and wanted to run off to tell someone, but I waited a little longer to see if I could make out
anything more. As I started to leave, something white appeared floating in the ocean at the point where the
plane, or whatever it was, had fallen. Someone was swimming towards the rocks. I supposed that it was the
pilot, that he had survived the accident. Intending to help him, I waited for him to get closer. He was swimming
so well I knew that he had not been badly hurt.

As he approached I realized that he was a child. He swam to the rocks and before beginning to climb out he
looked at me with a friendly smile.

I thought that he must be happy that he had saved himself. He didn't seem to be upset about the situation
and this calmed me down a little. When he had climbed to the top of the rocks, he shook the water out of his