box × pills
The queen requires specific pills. It seems she has a pox. Ten cartons new arrived last night, a thousand pills per box. But I must not fulfill the script. One box does not belong. Each pill defective in that box, ten milligrams too strong. With just one use of my weigh scale, the carton must be found. The queen expects expedience to find the right compound.
Roger Kenyon was North America’s first lay canon lawyer and associate director at the Archdiocese of Seattle. He was involved in tech (author of Macintosh Introductory Programming, Mainstay) before teaching (author of ThinkLink: a learner-active program, Riverwood). Roger lives near Toronto and offers free critical thinking and character development courses online.
“When not writing, I’m riding—eBike, motorbike, and a mow cart that catches air down the hills. One day I’ll have Goldies again.”
