Alien competition runners up
HERE, as promised, are 10 runner-up entries in the Feedback New Year competition. We asked entrants to compose a text message in no more than 160 characters, sent by an alien who has just arrived on our planet. Some of last week’s winning contributors sent more than one entry that we particularly enjoyed, and three of these are included here.
No sign of survivors. Died out 65 million years ago. No need for return mission.
Thomas J. Lynch, Perkasie, Pennsylvania, US
Natives wonderful. Send ketchup.
Chris Mullard, London, UK
Too late. Another one overrun by Starbucks.…
