FollowBolts punched through the composite walls like they were paper, making me hunker even lower behind the ferrocrete foundation. Not for the first time since this standoff began, I wished I could burrow into the floor but there was a granite-like rock under the thin layer of regolith that covered this planet. So far, I’d …
Month: May 2024
Today’s entry is a retelling of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”. This began almost ten years ago in a college creative writing class and I’ve been kicking it around ever since. I hope you enjoy it. Babcock E. Bare sat fidgeting, barely able to contain his nervousness. He knew therapy was the only way he …
Link to Pts. 1 and 2 Charlie was sitting in the school office when his mother arrived. She took one look at his puffy, just-beginning-to-swell eye and cheek and snapped, “What have you done?” “I got in a fight,” Charlie mumbled. “A fight,” she said, shaking her head. “We send you to this school to …