KNEES SPRING ETERNAL

Kathleen Hof

When the food supply of knee munching space aliens becomes scarce because seniors are receiving modern treatments, a frail jokester granny must defeat the hungry chompers with her new physics defying superpowered knees before the aliens gorge on kids to survive.

Daisy, sweet old Granny, suffers from bad knees to the extent she requires a power scooter. One night, she bolts awake at the sound of crunching and discovers space aliens chowing down on her knees. She screams for the nurse. But, more terrified of her than she is of them, the space aliens screech back and hide. Never one to shy away from a fight, Daisy pursues them through a series of comical misadventures including a misinterpretation of her fart being a love pact which results in a party hardy celebration. Eventually, Daisy learns the space aliens have always fed off elderly knees. But, increased replacement surgeries led to a famine and the aliens would soon need to devour the knees of kids to survive. Eventually, Daisy opts to have a new treatment, her own stem cells harvested and reinjected back into her knees. However, it turns out when the space aliens saliva mixes with the stem cells, knees become superpowered and defy all laws of physics. Ultimately, to save the kids from a life of knee pain and debilitation, Daisy leads two of her stem cell cohorts into battle against the space aliens. Their interactions are comedic. But, eventually she wins, the space aliens disappear and Daisy's blood is used to formulate a vaccine. All looks perfect until... during a mass vaccination event, they reappear, hiding under a table.

Comedy

23 pages