A smile stretched across mommy's yellow and purple cheek before she pat my head and pushed the funny tasting meatloaf towards me as she said, "Don't worry, daddy can't get mad anymore, sweetheart."
I kept driving but I knew our old car couldn't outpace the rapidly approaching munitions lighting up the sky around our village.
These new policies and safety checks have made my job so much harder than it used to be; but I still manage to get the merchandise.
As a scientist, I knew that the universe was expanding far faster than I drifted through the void, watching the stars blink out one by one.
"It should burn up upon reentry- just a few months left," I say to the remaining crew aboard the shuttle.
I wasn't expecting the 60 grit sandpaper wrapped sounding rod.