Dimension: 3000 fairy tales
Author: Peter Matthew Check
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Date: February 2, 2026
Once upon a time there was a pretty ordinary meadow. The kind where the grass smells like summer, where dandelions compete to see who can puff their seeds into the air first, and where kids can kick a ball so hard that sometimes it ends up in the next village.
And one completely normal afternoon, the sky suddenly... tinkled a little. 🔔
At first, nobody noticed anything. But then, out of the clouds floated down a small, round, silvery UFO — just the right size for a little person — and with a gentle “fňuuup” it landed on the grass like a careful dragonfly.
The hatch flipped open, and out climbed Aiby.
He was about as tall as the little kids, had two deep, black, friendly, always-smiling eyes, bright green skin, and looked kind and funny. Almost like a little Good-Lad goblin from another fairy tale.
“Hi,” said Aiby a bit shyly, and his voice sounded like little bells ringing: “I... um... I’m looking for a planet with new friends I could play with.”
The children froze for a moment with the ball in their hands.
And then the bravest one — five-year-old Mary with braids — pointed at Aiby and declared:
“You’ve got big eyes! That’s awesome!”
The kids started laughing and immediately surrounded Aiby.
“Can you kick a ball?” asked Joey, because he always wanted to kick a ball with someone.
Aiby tried to tap the ball with his foot. The ball flew high, made a little rainbow in the air, and then... stopped. It just hung there like a little observation balloon.
“Oops,” muttered Aiby. “I forgot to turn off the anti-gravity buttons.”
Everyone giggled so hard that Mary sat down in the grass laughing.
From that moment on, Aiby was part of the team.
He taught the kids how to do an “alien flip” (which was a flip like in slow motion — and it even came with the sound “bzzzing!”) and he taught them lots of amazing new things too. And they taught him how to sing songs from “Mission to Mars” and explained why you mustn’t eat the flowers in the meadow, even if they look like healing herbs.
The kids played all day, and it felt wonderful for everyone. They were all happy about their new friend who had flown in from another fairy-tale planet.
An amazing day full of new adventures and ball games went by like water, and when the sun began to sink slowly and the meadow turned golden, they all sat down in a circle.
“Do you have to fly home already?” Mary asked softly.
Aiby looked at his little UFO, then at the kids, and then he folded his tiny hands in his lap.
You know what?” he said at last, excitedly. “I really like it here. We can be friends and play ball together. And we can learn from each other. This will be my new home.💖🏠😀."
And so he stayed.
And when the day is nice, even today you can still see a group of kids and one tiny green alien there in that meadow — exploring flowers, watching nature, playing, and chasing the ball together, doing alien flips, and sometimes all getting stuck in the middle of the field at once, or the ball refusing to fall to the ground and just hanging in the air… because Aiby, for example, accidentally forgot to turn off the anti-gravity buttons again. 😁
And that is, dear children, the very best fairy tale in the world about how the right kind of friends are known by the fact that they can play wonderfully together — and it doesn’t matter whether they’re just from the next cottage over, or from some other fairy-tale planet far away.
💚🛸🌞🌻The happy end. 🌻🌞🛸💚
