Uncle Charlie Goes Swimming

By Joshua English

Charles is the sole caretaker for an eight-year old boy who could, with a thought, destroy the world. He must keep the boy safe and controlled, and solve the mystery of the boy's grandmother.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joshua English
• Release date: May 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310032264

Joshua English

Josh English lives in the Great Metropolitan Rainforest with his wife and the ghost of a cat. He writes about math, religion, writing, code, education, and lifting heavy things at joshenglish.livejournal.com.

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Uncle Charlie Goes Swimming

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Uncle Charlie Goes Swimming

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After Charles loosened the tourniquet on Andy’s arm and squeezed the syringe, the boy asked Uncle Charlie, what will the big room be tomorrow?

Charles pulled the needle out of the boy’s vein and pressed his thumb against the puncture, willing it closed.

Whatever you want it to be, he said.

The drug worked quickly, and Charles had to strain to hear the boy mumble I want to climb to space to see gra- before falling asleep. Charles wondered if the boy would remember that wish in the morning. Probably. He had talked about space and his grandmother for years. The concern that the boy had grown suspicious about the big room overrode idle curiosity.

Dream, he said to the sleeping boy as he dimmed the lights in the room to a pale glow using the manual slider. Some things were worth shifting, others not so much.

He walked downstairs to the other end of the penthouse, to the farthest away point from the boy’s bedroom he could get. He picked up the phone and dialed a number. It picked up halfway through the first ring.

No,