Orange Sun: Gladys Brewer

Gladys Brewer, the fattest girl at Lake Point High, saw what the orange sun had done to Candy the reporter on TV. She was tired of being looked down upon. Never again, not after she exposed herself to the sun. Ignoring her parents' pleas, she forced herself to get up and run straight out the front door at record speed. She stood in her front yard and spread her pale, flabby arms to welcome the rays of the altered star. "Change me!" she yelled.