• Whelks_chance@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 day ago

    Reading it in the early 00s it made me wish I lived somewhere far more interesting with far more wild classmates.

    All the rules and restrictions were so internalised, I think if we were abandoned on an island half of them would just sit still and starve.

    I can’t imagine any of them being interesting enough to try to start their own religious cult or anything.

    • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
      5·
      22 hours ago

      When lunchtime approached at her usual morning time, Becca waited and waited, still and silent, till the sun set on the calm and foamy sea. She sat waiting in the golden hour sun, stomach churning, wondering why.