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I told Labrino I was fairly sure Halley’s Comet was not involved in the Challenger explosion.
After Odin traded an eye for knowledge I had eight days of sympathetic response where my own left eye went dark.
The country had recently elected its first proudly illiterate president, A MAN UNSPOILT as he constantly bellowed, and this chimp was wildly popular everywhere he went.
Why do this to yourself you say, and I reply Why not? As enemies go, despair has every ounce of my respect.
“Suicide. It isn’t suicide when you do it like that.” She paused. “It’s stepping through the door. That’s all it is. They went in search of better.”
They were brave but what choice was there?
“Words are one way we leave tracks in the world, Sol. Maybe one day you will write a book, like Olaus did, or Molly Thorn. And people will read it, like I’ve been reading to you. And they will know that you were here, and a little about what you were like.”
What scares me is the notion we are all one rotten moment, one crushed hope or hollow stomach from stuffing someone blameless in a cage.