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Weekly Contest #359
The Raft Idea Jason Maxwell and his younger sister, Melody, watched a wall of grey clouds darken the distant mountains. Hunkered in their tent, eleven-year old Jason announced, “It’s a super storm, a real soaker. The river’ll flood, and we’ll have to take down the doors to build rafts so we don’t drown.” Melody giggled, but even at seven, she thought her brother was making things sound worse than they really were. Still, she liked camping in the living room with him, with the tent’s see-through blue walls, and the floor softened by blankets ...
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