Welcome back to Aral Stein Story Club. I'm Ivy, the club president, your guide through the strange, the frightening, the unsettling story club world.

Today, I've got another story from Arl Stein's Hidden Vault, and it's just as strange as you might expect.

Dale and Rita are devoted space travel fans who would die to get inside a rocket ship,

and they might just get their wish.

It's Arl Stein Story Club, and this is the winning tickets.

The Outer Space Club is now in session.

Dale, let's start with your report on Space Pioneers.

We're all dying to hear what you found out.

Uh, Rita?

Yep.

It's just you and me.

No one else showed up.

Their loss.

Now, what was this news you heard about Space Pioneers plans for expansion?

Well, Rita, as you know, Space Pioneers is the premier commercial spaceflight company in the world.

My Intel indicates they're even thinking about running a contest to send two people into orbit around planet Earth as early as next week.

Just think, Dale, we could be the first kids in space.

We'd be in the history books, a brother and sister team for the ages.

Oh, and it would be a big boon for membership in the Outer Space Club.

We could really use the press.

Can you imagine what everyone would say? We'd be the talk of the whole school.

We gotta make this happen. Um, I booked this room for the cheerleading club meeting. You're gonna have to

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