The Sun Leaves Traces

[stefficus]

this week, what with me and various of my coworkers spending far too much time either covering for each other or stuck in our own driveways because of the snow, this is your official "story every day or so, and mostly at night, but thanks for playing" group

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[stefficus]

...someday, we will get you to stop apologizing. =D

[stefficus]

Georgie looked weird. We tried not to stare at her, tried not to draw their attention and earn beatings for her or for ourselves. But it was difficult.

She was the wrong color.

Many of us were the wrong color, I suppose, but mostly we'd been grabbed so young we didn't notice. Everybody just had different skin, and so what? Georgie was the wrong color for her, that was the problem

[oberon_the_fool]

What They didn't tell Nan or any of the others is that Georgie had developed skin cancer from spending so much time outside; what with the ozone layer so depleted and the distance between the Earth and Sun having shortened by a quarter million miles in the past thousand years; and that they were all here underground for a REASON; and children should really mind their elders if they know what's good for them.

They never told Nan, and so she found the way out, and never did come back, because she was eaten by a three hundred pound mutant ursaur.

[stefficus]

hee.

it's better than being eaten by a grue. eaten by a grue is SO pedestrian.

[oberon_the_fool]

An ursaur is more commonly known as a beargator. Which is exactly what it looks like.

[omnicat]

http://omnicat.livejournal.com/125595.html