A la Node

Once upon a time, a man was busy moving. He worked hard all week, hauling big heavy boxes, piles of wood and woodworking tools, and even an anvil. While he was moving, exhausted and dusty, he lost track of time and didn’t realize that a very important deadline was approaching fast. After one particularly long day of moving heavy equipment and sorting through a very dusty, dirty workshop, he suddenly realized that his deadline was only half an hour away and he had not written the story he had promised to write before the deadline was up. Even worse, he was in his new house, which didn’t even have an Internet connection yet! How would he upload his story? The old house still had an Internet connection, but it was all the way across town, there was only half an hour left, and he was so tired he was already in bed. Everything seemed lost.

Then, as if by magic, a wondrous and amazing thing happened. But it didn’t happen to him, sadly. He had to drive across town after all.

Moving by Kenneth Lett is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.