“When I first joined the army a few years ago,” Corporal Clegg complained, “Little did I have any idea how I’d end up.”
It was a bitter cold winter in Alaska. He, along with about a dozen other young men, was stranded in an obscure Alaskan outpost.
“Each of us is being tested,” he explained, “To see how much isolation he can endure. Our solitary confinement is strictly enforced. None of us is allowed out of his quarters without supervision.”
There wasn’t anyone else there. He was merely thinking out loud, in order to keep his mind occupied.
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Dear Larry,
This puts me in mind of more than one Twilight Zone.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks Rochelle. I was a bit confused, at first, about what to do so I started trying to think of Twilight Zonish ideas. Not many things I”m used to happen in that kind of environment.
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Imagination can be a safety line. Great take on the prompt.
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I think he failed the isolation test. Fun story.
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Thanks Margaret. I think practically anyone would flunk that test
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Let’s hope they all end up with their minds whole. Well done, Larry.
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Thanks. It’s a hard kind of thing to handle
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