100 Futures (.20)

My parents told me that I was wasting my time.  Playing video games will never earn you a decent living.  Well I’ve just about proved them wrong already, though there is certainly some argument over the term “decent”.  I make...

100 Futures (.19)

My mother is making us move.  She says there are no jobs for her in our city, so off we go to the big city in the mountains, Denver.  I don’t understand what the big deal is, a classroom in...

100 Futures (.18)

The snow came down for twelve days straight, and it collapsed a bunch of roofs.  My father went out every morning and clomped around scrapping our top clear.  He fell of course, as did a great number of people who...

100 Futures (.17)

The Terro Virus hit and wiped out half of us.  The piles of bodies must have been high enough to scale heaven for sure.  The virus changed us.  At first I thought it was the trauma of losing half of...

100 Futures (.16)

X.                 The Trumpettes of Doom my dad calls them, like I’m supposed to care about the president.  Want to talk about doom?  My parents are essentially forcing me into getting my driver’s license so that they can have me...

100 Futures (.15)

I didn’t even want to get my license. I didn’t even want a car. I wanted a computer. When I finally graduated high school they gave me…a car. This meant I had to get a job to pay for the...

100 Futures (.14)

I'm writing this on an old legal notepad because it's late in the night and my eyes can't bear the sameness of a word processor. When a kid decides to become a writer it's in the head illusion of writing...

100 Futures (.13)

Lucky #13 Can there really be life on other planets? My mother thinks I'm obsessed with this question. To her I would be better off if I were a regular teenager playing Russia Roulette the STD edition. no thank u....

100 Futures (.12)

My dad was always teaching me about being off the grid.  My first solid memory is of him skinning a dear.  I remember being shocked  for sure, but the meat he cooked up was my second clear memory.  I’ve loved...