On My Mind…

Prompt Word: Drill Minervie and Chip 16 Chip was playing in his room when Minervie called from the den, “Chip, why don’t you go play in the woods?” Chip jumped up and ran out the back door, into the edge of the woods at the far corner of the garden, and dove right back into the neighbor’s back garden, and kept running past six other homes. Chip knocked on the back door....

Prompt Word: Gray Binity 2 The first thing to hit Jeff, as the cargo door opens from the bottom, is the mild pink color of the port cargo hall floor, a welcome change from the gray of the ship’s hold. The second is the smell of dust and metal. Not just the floor, but the entire space in front of the cargo bay is a drab pink, with stripes along the walls and floor, probably visual guides to various locations....

Prompt Word: Float Binity 1 Jeff wakes up from deep sleep on a standard supply transport just coming into the docking pattern for a community. Groggy, but awake, he pulls himself out of the sleep pod, transitioning from cargo to passenger, at least until next departure. The ship is already decelerating, so float time is already over. He checks the cargo hold’s work-detail display, and doesn’t recognize the name of this stop: Binity....

Prompt Word: Room Minervie and Chip 15 Chip was reading on the floor, and Minervie came into Chip’s room and sat down on his bed. “I didn’t do anything,” he complained meekly. “I am here to explain, not to yell. You are being here to learn,” Minervie said. “Now sit up, and mind what I say.” Chip turned his book over on the floor, and sat up cross legged. He didn’t really understand the difference between yelling and a lecture, so he was braced....