07-25-2010, 04:00 AM
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The Reforms
Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition
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When Sharks Fly: "The Urchins", illustrated by Derek Chatwood ; (c) 2010. All Rights Reserved
Some time after sharks took over the skies, kids began to notice something. While most people were hiding in their homes and building cages to get around their cities, those who couldn't afford shelter were left to to the sharks. And month after month, year after year, these helpless homeless people were still going about, as alive as the day the sharks swam in the seas. So the kids who wanted to rebel, who wanted freedom, had a very easy way to go about it: they went outside.
These "urchins" braved the abandoned cityscapes and strip malls that their parents abandoned, and followed the habits and tricks of the homeless.
Eventually they knew more about how the sharks behaved in this new world than most anyone. This was a strange new world for the sharks too, after all.
Until one day everything changed. Again.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
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