April 18, 2013

No. 359


 They told her that if she dug a hole straight down, she’d hit China.

Miranda turned aside the first shovelful of backyard dirt, even though her calculations showed that she’d actually end up somewhere south of Madagascar, in the middle of the ocean.

She wasn’t terribly worried about that, though. She didn’t seriously think she’d make it all the way through. She did, however, hope to strike gold sometime before spring break ended.

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