LAW
Two minutes left on the clock. Three questions remaining. I glance at the first one. Area of a cube, easy enough. The calculations zip through my brain and I find the correct answer on the sheet in front of me.… Read More »LAW
February 2022
Chapter 3: Cruelty Darkness & Discovery
The next morning it’s announced after a sparse gruel breakfast that we’re going to be working with our oldies for the first couple of hours today. We are all going to run errands throughout the mines. The oldies job is… Read More »Chapter 3: Cruelty Darkness & Discovery
Chapter 2: The Mines
Four days of traveling pass, I don’t get much more news. I figure out we’re heading east, and hear that the mine harvests coal, which when burned, creates the smog that was outside of Abahak. I also heard a bit… Read More »Chapter 2: The Mines
Chapter 1: Changes
The room stays silent for about thirty seconds after our jailor leaves, then chaos erupts as all the prisoners try to make sense of what we just heard. An inspection? Some of us going to the mines? “I don’t wanna… Read More »Chapter 1: Changes
Gov School Resume
(October 2020-21 schoolyear) “So Mephi, what do you think?” “About what?” Mephi perches on the chair next to me, and I cast an anxious look at my family. They are at the other end of the table playing clue, but… Read More »Gov School Resume