Raymond remained silent as the shuttle commander tightened his safety harness. Not by choice, he had always been muted.
"T minus ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, ignition, we have lift off," echoed around the world.
Four minutes later, the spacecraft made history when it entered Earth orbit with the world's first High Functioning Autistic passenger aboard.
“Commander, how is our guest?”
“We are amazed, Raymond won’t stop talking. So far, he has given us solid working theories for Dark Matter, What is at the bottom of Black Holes, and how to cure cancer.”
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J. S. Wade
Since reading Tolkien in Middle school, I have been fascinated with creating, reading, and hearing art through story’s and music. I am a perpetual student of writing and life.
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World War Three ended, and a boy found a cabinet buried in a bombed-out settlement. A rare and complete Bible was found intact, with passages bookmarked by pages torn from an outdoorsman catalog. The pages displayed male models wearing red plaid shirts.
By J. S. Wade12 months ago in Fiction
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What an amazing story
What an amazing story
You are on a roll with these micros! Somehow you manage to tell an entertaining little story with social commentary and a lot of heart.
This was just so wonderful! If only everyone was given chance. This was fantastic!
I don't remember being shot into space. Oh wait, that last part. Must have been someone else.
If all minds could be free, so much could be resolved ♥️
Nice story❤️😉
Splendid!!!💖💖💕
Wow. This is great. Well done.
If only we could have done something like this much earlier in our history; think of all the brilliant ideas and notions people like Raymond might have come up with! Besides, if Tom Cruise gets to go into space...
Excellent!!
Aw, that's great, Scott! fab story!