"I'll talk to you tomorrow in more detail at our meeting, but I think I've found a

solution to our problem. It's not exactly legal, but it won't land us in jail for
the rest of our lives either. Are you willing to take the chance?" Monroe asked his
partner over the phone.
The computer wouldn't start. She banged on the side and tried again. Nothing. She
lifted it up and dropped it to the table. Still nothing. She banged her closed fist
against the top. It was at this moment she saw the irony of trying to fix the
machine with violence.
Patricia's friend who was here hardly had any issues at all, but she wasn't telling
the truth. Yesterday, before she left to go home, she heard that her husband is in
the hospital and pretended to be surprised. It later came out that she was the
person who had put him there.
It was difficult to explain to them how the diagnosis of certain death had actually
given him life. While everyone around him was in tears and upset, he actually felt
more at ease. The doctor said it would be less than a year. That gave him a year to
live, something he'd failed to do with his daily drudgery of a routine that had
passed as life until then.
Colors bounced around in her head. They mixed and threaded themselves together.
Even colors that had no business being together. They were all one, yet distinctly
separate at the same time. How was she going to explain this to the others?
Benny was tired. Not the normal every day tired from a hard day o work. The
exhausted type of tired where you're surprised your body can even move. All he
wanted to do was sit in front of the TV, put his feet up on the coffee table, and
drink a beer. The only issue was that he had forgotten where he lived.
He was aware there were numerous wonders of this world including the unexplained
creations of humankind that showed the wonder of our ingenuity. There are huge
heads on Easter Island. There are the Egyptian pyramids. There’s Stonehenge. But he
now stood in front of a newly discovered monument that simply didn't make any sense
and he wondered how he was ever going to be able to explain it.
After hunting for several hours, we finally saw a large seal sunning itself on a
flat rock. I took one of the wooden clubs while Larry took the longer one. We
slowly snuck up behind the seal until we were close enough to club it over its
head. The seal slumped over and died. This seal would help us survive. We could eat
the meat and fat. The fat could be burned in a shell for light and the fur could be
used to make a blanket. We declared our first day of hunting a great success.
It was a simple tip of the hat. Grace didn't think that anyone else besides her had
even noticed it. It wasn't anything that the average person would notice, let alone
remember at the end of the day. That's why it seemed so unbelievable that this
little gesture would ultimately change the course of the world.
Her mom had warned her. She had been warned time and again, but she had refused to
believe her. She had done everything right and she knew she would be rewarded for
doing so with the promotion. So when the promotion was given to her main rival, it
not only stung, it threw her belief system into disarray. It was her first big
lesson in life, but not the last.