Make Your Life Matter
The girls said they would go, so Colby checked the ladies stalls before he let them in. When everyone got back, Taylor announced it was time to go. Taylor led them out of Space Mountain, out a side gate and right to a car that was one of a few dozen spread across the vastness of the parking lot. “The door is open and the keys are on the floor.” Taylor announced. Colby looked at him with a grin. “Maybe [...] Read more »
“Carson City,” Monica said. “We drove to Carson City that first day.” “Yah, that’s right” Taylor confirmed. “It was a long drive.” Colby looked it up on his web browser. “It’s over 500 miles away. We are definitely going to need to find some transportation. Let me see if I can email your folks to see were they are.” “Dad,” said Sam “If you email them now, the General will find us.” “Why do you say that?” “I saw them [...] Read more »
Without knowing exactly where they were heading, except away from the hotel they crossed the long deserted Disneyland complex. Never seeing it deserted, and never seeing it at night, made everyone a little leery – everyone but Sam. “It’s a small world after all.” He sang quietly at first. “It’s a small world after all.” Then a little bit louder he continued, “It’s a small world after all. It’s a small, small world!” “Great voice Sam,” his Dad encouraged. “Love [...] Read more »
What’s going on here? Colby thought to himself. Do I trust him? I trusted Sam and it paid off. But I didn’t really have time to think about. Do I really have time now to think about it? Go that way and I’ll need to fight. I’m not a fighter. He’s a trained killer. Go the other way and Taylor might just be right. “OK,” Colby agreed. What do I have to lose? “Let’s go.” They worked their way along [...] Read more »
He kept his Blackberry charged, even though the service had yet to be restored. He took that, the charger, all the kid’s passports and his wallet. He told the kids to take only one change of clothes. They were going to go and try to find their parents. The kids were eager to go. They had been stir crazy sitting in a hotel with no TV and nothing to do for five days. Taylor and Monica missed their parents. Jeri [...] Read more »
Since when did the U.S. army collect bills for the hotel industry? Was what Colby wanted to say, but after securing an invite to chow, he thought he’d hold his tongue for now. “Thanks for the heads up.” At the supper chow line, Colby was shocked to see how many kids were there. They outnumbered adults probably 50 to 1. He guessed – and he had a gift for guessing the right amount of people in any given gathering – [...] Read more »
They had pizza and junk food in the room but in a couple of days that was all gone, as was all the snacks in the mini-bar. Service was not offered from the kitchen and they still had not received an email or call from Liza or Henry. The service for Blackberry was still down, but Colby was able to get online and check his online mail accounts. There were dozens of emails from family and friends who knew they [...] Read more »
Even through the sealed glass the five huddled in the hotel room could hear the confusion happening outside. Horns were honking. Car alarms we constantly going off. The sound of glass breaking and people shouting were enough to drive an atheist to prayer. There was nothing for them to do. The TV wasn’t working. The only radio signal was the emergency warning signal, but it was playing its test signal over and over. Power was lost for a while, but [...] Read more »
“Are you calling me ignorant?” “Ignorant and stupid are too different things.” Colby always had this way of talking down to people when he got upset. He’d go on and on about things he knew little or nothing about just to make someone back down. Davina really didn’t like it, but since she was gone Colby had no one to check him before he went too far. “You can be ignorant and not be the fool, but you can’t be [...] Read more »
The walk down the wall and across the empty lanes of traffic was not nearly as difficult as the climb up the other side. Colby had the children go first, so that he could catch any who slipped. They didn’t seem to have the problem. The twenty extra pounds he’d packed on his already slightly overweight body since Davina was killed turned out to be Colby’s biggest concern. That, or subsequently the lack of oxygen that resulted in being so [...] Read more »