Once upon a time there was a deep blue sky and a mellow green earth,
and the area between the sky and the earth was filled with a large
space.   For many many years the space was content with its life.
But one day it looked about itself and noticed something it had never
noticed before:  there was only one sky and only one earth, and
because there is only one sky and one earth, then there must only be
one space between them.   The space realized that it was the only
space of its kind, sure there were other spaces, there were spaces in
jars, and in caves, and even spaces between the hands of little girls,
but there was only one space between the sky and the earth.   And the
space was very very lonely.
   "Look at all those other spaces" it said, "none of them are alone
like me, there are hundreds of caves, thousands of jars, and millions
of little girls, and so there are hundreds of cave spaces, thousands
of jar spaces, and millions of spaces between the hands of little
girls.   None of them are alone like me."
   As time passed, the space between the sky and the earth became
increasingly lonely, and it started to withdraw and pull into itself.
Soon this caused little voids to appear between the sky and the earth,
and the voids grew as the space grew unhappier and shrank.   As the
voids increased in size and number, they created vacuumes which pulled
at smaller spaces, the tiny spaces like those between the threads of
spider webs or those nestled between pine needles felt the tug
first.   All the small spaces throughout the world soon grew worried
and spoke among themselves, "What can we do? how will we save
ourselves from being sucked out from our homes where we belong?" they
cried, "We must find a hero, someone who can save us!"   And they
searched the land and they searched the sea, they searched for a hero
space who could cheer up the space between the sky and the earth.
   After searching all of the land and the sea and even in secret
places known only to spaces, they finally found their hero, a space so
wise and so couragous they knew it would be able to save them.   They
all called its name, and begged it to make the great miserable space
happy again so that they wouldn't be sucked out into the void.   The
hero-space shushed them and told them to remain calm.   The reasurring
sound of its voice made them feel much better, they knew it must have
a plan.   Then the hero-space bashed all their new-found peace to
hell, "No way, I'm not cheering our huge brother up, I want to be
sucked out of my spot, I've been here forever and I am bored."   And
the hero-space would not hear another word from them.   Soon the tiny
spaces started coming loose and shooting out into the void, before
long everyone was zapping out of their cozy places and zipping around
the void.   And what do you know? It was pretty fun! And they all
decided it was much better out here in the void where they could meet
all the spaces they hadn't been able to meet before.   And every space
lived happily ever after, except the space between the sky and the
earth, but personally I think it was pretty happy too and just didn't
want to admit it because then it would expand to fill all the area
between the sky and the earth, and push all the happy little spaces
back to their old places. 

The End