spacious skies - 19. in the woods

by american joe

part 19 of 40

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pete rollins lived in a house in the woods. sally harris lived in another house in the woods. fark lived in the woods. pete rollins worked for the unlimited universal corporation. on three days a week he worked at home and on another three days he rode his bicycle to the train station four miles away and took the train to the uuc headquarters in the city. on the seventh day he usually either went for a long ride on his bicycle, or for a walk in the woods. sally harris was a freelance designer of logos for startup corporations. she almost never left her house - which she described as a “cabin” to her friends and associates online, but was quite spacious and comfortable by most humans’ standards. sally’s house was closer to the highway than pete’s and was visited by delivery vehicles of various sizes almost every day, sometimes two or three times a day. sally kept a small electric car in a shed behind her “cabin” but rarely used it. pete and sally had no interest in each other and barely registered on each other’s consciousnesses. fark was the last of his tribe, which had lived in the woods since the beginning of time, keeping out of sight of so-called civilization, and he took a great interest in both phil and sally, especially sally, and spied on them constantly. next