Poly's Summer Vacation at Excentrifugal Engineering

By James Snover

First published in 2017

Polly Madison is thrilled to discover she is going to be the first Excentrifugal Engineering Jr. Intern. She's going to have a summer full of learning, building, racing, and fighting hostile other-dimensional aliens. Along the way she will learn everything she ever heard about Rex Mason was absolutely true: he's the most dangerously unhinged mad man inventor anyone could have imagined. And she'll be very glad he's on our side!

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Ill-Advised Physics Publishing Co.
• Release date: Sep 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201103934

James Snover

Raised in Texas, where distance is always a huge concern, I've always had a love for anything that could go fast. If it was loud, and big, so much the better! Second is my love for science fiction. I've read it all my life, and now I'm happy to be writing it!

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Polly's Summer Vacation

At

Excentrifugal Engineering

by

James Snover

... and also in the news today: mad-man inventor Rex Mason and his company Excentrifugal Engineering have done it again. They claim they have prevented Earth from being invaded by elder evil gods from the lost millennia, which Mason calls, simply, the Tentacles." Mount Everest was cut in half in the process.

I don't know what all the fuss is about. That could have happened to anyone, and anyway, the other half is still here, it's just in orbit. Soon we'll be calling it a new moon and laughing about all this, said company president Rex Mason.

The Green Party and the Gaia Club are calling for Mason to be prosecuted in the World Court for environmental destruction and persecution of a newly discovered endangered species, the Tentacles. When asked what he had to say to this, Mason announced a new E.E. summer intern program, saying, It would be the biggest thing ever ...

POLLY MADISON HELD the letter in her hands. She couldn't count the number of times she had read and re-read it. She had been disappointed a lot in her thirteen years, and this seemed too good to be true. Still, there it was in black and white, on paper that contained a clear warning that it might, possibly, explode. She had been accepted into E.E.'s youth intern program.

When she told her parents about the intern opportunity and how much she wanted to go, their reaction wasn’t what she had hoped.  Her dad’s face turned red. Her Mom wanted to know when had she applied for the internship, and why didn’t they know about that?

Because I knew you would get like this, Polly told them.

There is no way we are letting you go be an intern with Excentrifugal Engineering, young lady, her father said. We've read all about that place. The whole world has heard about that place. They nearly blow up the planet on a monthly basis! You are not going there.

But Dad, haven't you read the letter? Think what a great opportunity this would be!

"I read the letter. I especially noted the bit where it said the paper might explode on contact with