Orcas Island: A Short Story

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I rose on a Saturday morning pondering what I would do today. I got out of bed, then put on gloves to wipe off the dust that had settled on my bedside table. It always puzzled me how so much dust could gather in only a one night period. I got dressed in my favorite garment and bow tie. My mom thought that it was an odd combination, but I thought it was quite nice—Bow ties are cool. I put on one of my many fedoras, then opened the door that led straight into our kitchen. “Would you like some breakfast, Dear?” My mother asked. “No, thank you,” I said politely. “Did you know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day?” She said. “You can’t miss it.” “Yes, mom, everyone knows that. I’m not hungry.” I said as I walked out of the kitchen. “I’m going to the library,” I …show more content…

“Those are coordinates,” I said. Since I didn’t know anything more about coordinates besides what they looked like, I went over to one of the library’s computers and searched the coordinates. “Orcas Island?” I said to no one in particular. Orcas Island was an island in the middle of the Puget Sound, near the border between Washington and British Columbia. About 103 miles from Seattle, where I live.
By this time I was sure it was for me, I’m not really sure how I knew, but I was positive someone had planted this book here for me to find.
I looked back to the book and opened to a random page, it came up with the beginning of a chapter called Norse Mythology. Which was funny because I was really interested in Norse mythology, and was thinking about it when I was turning to a random page. To test out my new theory, I closed my eyes and thought about Greek mythology. I decided to focus on the goddess Artemis for some reason, I don’t know why. I opened my eyes to find that the book had turned itself to the page talking about, you guessed it, about Artemis, Goddess of the

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