by Beth Hoyer
hard. I’m surprised that Sue is out in this weather. I watched TV until the TV reception got bad. I wound up watching a video of a TV show that was in the nineties for eight years. Victoria sat in my lap. Demeter was trying to play with my pen. She always wants to play with my pen. The weather outside is still snowing. The snow looks lighter. The phone rang and it was Sue on the phone. She was in the hospital for tests. She checked her video messages and got my message. The hospital is on the other side of town. She’s staying there with Kurt until the storm is calmer. We talked for an hour and thirty minutes by my watch. Sue talked mostly about the baby. I kept trying to steer the conversation from baby talk to something else. After the phone call I watched the rest of the movie. The cats demanded to be fed. They were meowing at me. Victoria was jumping and pawing my leg. Demeter was trying to play with my pen. She always wants my pen. Then I watched the rest of the movie. Demeter stole my pen. I had to look everywhere for it. I keep the kittens out of the basement. It's not clean down there. I don’t think it’s safe for them to be there. I have to organize the boxes and clean the basement. I found my pen in my pillowcase. I can’t believe Demeter stole my pen. Crazy cat. She acted excited when she saw my pen. Cute. I checked the weather report. The storm will be over by tomorrow morning. Good thing I’m not working tomorrow. I can stay up late as long as I want to. The phone rang again. It was Sean on the phone. He wanted me to come over in the early afternoon. I won’t be able to sleep late. I have to get up a little bit early. I think I’ll go to bed after the news. The news came on it’s a thirty minute TV show. The news talked about Penny what’s her name. They talked for fifteen minutes about her. Ugh. I can’t write about her in here anymore. I don’t want to talk about her. The news says she committed suicide in her cell. The news said she had surgery on her ears and the surgery made her go deaf. I guess she doesn’t accept being deaf like me. I don’t mind being deaf. It’s a relief. I don’t have to hear unwanted noises. They showed a video of her assaulting me. Then they talked about the weather for the rest of the news. Snow is heavy in Canada. It caused several roofs to collapse. I’m glad the roof in my house is still standing. I hope I have a place to stay if this happens.
I felt like running in the forest but when I went to the sun room door it refused to open despite my pleas. The front door refused to open either. I was pulling on it and I had a vision that my mom and dad were leaning on the door refusing to let me out. They had concerned looks on their faces like there was something bad outside. I went to the window and I could see nothing but snow. I had a vision of a police car with the words Wolfville on it sitting outside. There were people outside with signs and they were protesting something. It was weird but I could have sworn their signs were about me. Then I felt myself led from the window to my room where I felt something like a needle in my right arm and I felt tired. I managed to write this down.
Tired,
Liz
March 6, 2101
Dear Anne,
The snow was heavy yesterday. The machine fed the cats then I had an hour to go before it was time for me to show up. I hope the roads are clear. I looked out the window. The roads and sidewalks are clear. I didn’t have a vision of the police car and the people either. The underground heating pipe does wonders. I went to explore the library before my appointment with the doctor. I walked to doctors and I could have sworn I was in a police car with my parents to the building. This time instead of books all I saw were videos. There were a lot of videos. My favorite TV show must be popular around here. I wonder what’s popular on Winchester continent. I checked online the computer. My favorite TV show is also popular there. They already built their first house. It’s designed like the twentieth century with futuristic stuff in it. Stuff that are long words I can’t pronounce. The houses are made out of plastic like foam material.
Then I walked back to the doctor’s office where Sean did a lot of blood tests on me. He explained the results of my tests. Said they came back negative on any known diseases. He thinks I had an allergy that’s all. Sean suggested that I take the diabetes pills with the hormones. He wanted me to write down the side effects. After that I wandered to walk around the library. I could work here instead of the Cherrio store. It seems to be nice. I sneezed and I think I might be allergic to something in the library. I hope not. I went home by myself with two knights behind me escorting me. They also guided me home too. I was bored that I worked on my gymnastics web site. It has about two thousand hits. Several people left messages on my guest book. They left nice messages. Such as
“Great Web site. I enjoyed learning about gymnastics. It’s an interesting sport.”
I have about two hundred people in my guest book. I did some work on my web site. I added a picture and animation. I hope to add many things to the web site. I ate some dinner. I took my pills. I was eating something when the phone rang. It scared the cats. Demeter who was snoozing on the table jumped up. Victoria ran off my lap. I got a call from Anna telling me to report to work tomorrow morning. It means going to bed early. I wrote down I feel a throw up feeling and headaches. I hate to take pills but no choice. I feel better writing this down. I think I shower too long. The water is nice and pleasant.
I had a vision of a white wolf telling me “Go to your room and sleep now.”
While in the long shower, I went upstairs and found the cats in my room looking at me with a wide eye looks on their faces. Then I sat on the bed and wrote in here as the cats went to my lap and proceeded to fight over who gets to sit on me. I decided to follow the white wolf’s advice and go to sleep.
Yours,
Elizabeth,
March 7, 2101
Dear Anne,
I slept fine with both cats snoozing on my chest. They got over fighting with each other and are like a pack animal snoozing with me. I brought my food in a food bag. I ate an apple. Someone left a computer on in the break room. I used it to check for the news which is just same old news on the Penny suicide and the weather, boring. I ate my lunch. I should have checked out a book from the library. I remember I found books on gymnastics. They were how too books. I guess I got bored. I feel there should be excitement in my life.
Same old but my life got exciting because I eavesdropped on people talking by reading lips. I read they were talking about colonizing a moon one of three orbiting Terra. That’s where I got my information. The moon is named PX5. It is green full of life mostly. I have no idea if they are going to colonize the moon. I mean Terra has been just colonized and they’re talking about colonizing the moon. I didn’t tell anyone except Sue about what I read. Sue thought it was too fast rushing it. She thinks we should wait until we finish colonizing Terra. I told Anna about what I lip read. She confirmed it’s true that PX5 will be colonized soon. She’s not sure when. Planet Earth wants PX5 colonized. Messages can be sent as fast as the light. I can’t wait for space travel to be fast instead of taking years. I ate applesauce. I feel fine. Anna told me there’s a class tonight. I checked the schedule. I have work tomorrow morning for eight hours on my watch. I just finished my shift at the store. I walked home to feed the cats. They were very hungry. You should see them when it’s feeding time. They act excited whenever their going to be fed. Several people at work tried to talk to me in sign language. I wound up giving people sign language lessons. I think there should be classes in sign language. I have some ideas on creating a sign language web site. I went to the library. I looked on a computer to find sign language books. I found the books were checked out. Oh wow. I guess people are getting interested in sign language.
Several people in class tried to talk to Bruce and me in sign language. We wound up teaching those signs. Lad interpreted the class. Jeff tried to sign too. He had Lad help him with the signs. Uh? What happened to him being fluent in sign language? Our test results on the stimulators came back. I passed one hundred percent. Those driving lessons from dad paid off. I asked Bruce what he got. He told me he passed with one hundred too as Georgia who’s
in the class asked if there will be sign language classes. Lad told the class he’ll find out. After class Bruce walked me home. It was nice to walk with him. Lad was staying in the auditorium to work. He’s the janitor. We didn’t talk on the way home. I felt a creepy feeling of hands on my back and an image of my mom leading me through corridors of some hospital. As for Bruce and I not talking it was too dark to talk. We reached my place and Bruce kissed me on the lips before leaving to his house. We had been going out for nearly two months. I wonder when I’ll get married. I guess a couple months from now. That is okay with me. It might be nice to stay home and write books. I have a lot of stories on stuff from Earth to write about.
Still writing,
Elizabeth
March 8, 2101
Dear Anne,
I forgot to take my pills. I couldn’t sleep well. I didn't have any weird dreams. I can’t believe I forgot to take my pills. I took them when I woke up. It’s a good thing I went to bed early. Several customers tried talking to me in sign language. I taught them sign language. Anna seemed annoyed. She wanted me to work instead of
