The Devils Punchbowl

The Joke Luke Webster Pepper O'Brien Rodriguez And Benny Steinbeck Seniors At Del Norte High Plan What They Consider A Perfect Joke To Pull On Their Girls. But As Sometimes Happens Jokes Backfire And They Meet An Unknown Entity In The Local Graveyard On A Dark Foggy Night. Beautiful Girls Graduation Looms Just Around The Corner And Their Girls Still Mad About The Gross Joke In The Graveyard Refuse To Have Anything To Do With Them So They Spend Their Last Day Of School Alone. That Night At Their Senior Prom Benny And Lily Are An Instant Hit When They Sing A Special Song They Have Composed. The Evening Ends In Happiness The Girls Forgive Them For Their Bad Joke. The Devils Punchbowl Backpacking Into A Rough Craggy Wilderness Area They Hike 4800 Feet Up Along An Extremely Arduous Switchback Trail To The Awesome Beauty Of A Lake . . . A Glacial Cut Cirque Set Deep Within The Siskiyou National Forest Wilderness Area The Devils Punchbowl. The Cavern Returning To The Fissure They Had Discovered The Year Before They Struggle Through Long Crevices Narrow Passages And Ancient Underground Waterways To Find The Immense Cavern Still Brilliantly Lit By A Mysterious Unknown Source; Explore A Cave Filled With Stone Tablets Examine A Robot And Discover A Spaceship. Aliens In Nervous Anticipation And Excitement They Explore The Spaceship And Surrounding Caves And Caverns . . . Until Subtly Moving Shadows Form In The Entrance To A Hall They Have Dubbed The Weird Corridor. Billowing Inward Its Undefined Edges Hover Vague And Fuzzy Within A Darker Mass And Meshing Became Part Of The Ship'S Wall. Deep Within Its Entrance Choked With Layered Stacks Of Moving Clouds A Void Forms. A Black Hole.