Pass Me The Poloompil

By John Charles Miller

UFOs in Norway? Harald Pedersen knows what he saw, even though his friends said he had too much to drink. As they lounged around a campfire in Hessdalen Valley, a small red bus moved across the ground in front of a line of tall pines. Behind a window of the bus, an alien waved at him. None of the others saw it, laughing at him.

Harald shoved the incident aside. As a features writer for Aftenposten, the major newspaper in Oslo, his supervisor called him into her office for a new assignment. He was going to America, to a small town on Florida's Gulf of Mexico coast, Crystal River. The assignments: Report on the winter arrival of the famed manatees into Kings Bay, find out what "Florida Man" was, and investigate an international news report that a small manatee had brought four human skulls into Three Sisters Springs, the main cold-weather refuge for the manatees.

All of these turned out to be unrelated to an incident that occurred as Harald went on an early morning walk in other parts of Crystal River. On the densely wooded corner of NE Crystal Street and NE 7th Avenue, he was abruptly bumped into by Elvin Bottcher, a hobbitish white-haired old man, pushing a wobbly grocery cart full of strange-looking and strange-smelling fruits and vegetables. Appreciating Harald's help with picking them up when the cart tipped over, the man invited Harald to lunch at his viney-woody house deep in the nearby woods.

Elvin, hesitantly, asked Harald, who was curious about the strange fruit and vegetables he ate, if he would like to get some for himself. Sitting on a red wooden bench on the corner, they waited for their transport. Suddenly, down the street in the distance appeared a whirlwind of leaves, sticks, and paper, out of which materialized the same red bus that Harald had seen in Norway.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FHK97WLB
• ISBN13: 9798290076737
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"