simple solutions are most appealing
You can’t resist the circus. It pulls out of town tomorrow, but what has your attention isn’t the clown running the show. It’s the outrage of the cage.
You can best a lock without a key, but the get-away won’t be as easy. A guard encircles the circus, rattling the cages every few minutes.
You’re as captive as the animals in it—until Ms monkey slips something incidental from her inventory. Giving the slip to Mr security and setting the simian family free.
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.”
