Cold, Thin Air: Volume #2 by C. K. Walker

Author:C. K. Walker [Walker, C. K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781517039912
Published: 2015-10-05T07:00:00+00:00

PALEONTOLOGISTS WERE WE

Jake was my best friend when I was a kid. We’d bonded over a deep obsession of the Jurassic Park movies and our resulting passion for Paleontology.

We used to spend every weekend out in the woods excavating the forest floor for dinosaur bones.

But one day when we came home from school and gathered up our digging equipment, my parents stopped us on the way out the door. They told us it wasn’t safe to go outside today. We went up to my room but we could still hear the adults whispering about “another body being found after all these years”.

Jake’s parents came over and they sat us down in the living room and made us promise to only play in our backyards from now on. We insisted we weren’t playing, we were making scientific discoveries. They just smiled at Jake and me and sent us outside with squirt guns, which we abandoned as soon as we were out the door. I snuck up to my room and grabbed our tools instead.

That was the day we finally hit pay dirt. After a year and a half of excavating we had finally found our first section of dinosaur skeleton – and in my backyard no less! We hurried inside to tell our parents but they had left to a neighborhood meeting and only my father was home. When we told him he was very excited and agreed to take us to the university the next afternoon to present our findings to the anthropology department for testing.

But we never went to the university. And it wasn’t because my dad didn’t keep his promise, either. It was because Jake never made it home from school the next day. And he never came home any other day either. I was scared and lonely for a few months but my parents hired me a therapist and I slowly got better. By the time we moved out of state less than a year later, I’d forgotten entirely about the dinosaur bones we had discovered in the back yard.

Until today.

This morning my daughter came home from a weekend with Grandma and Grandpa. She said she hadn’t been allowed to go outside because of some missing kids in the area. And for the first time since I was nine I thought about the bones Jake and I found in my backyard. And I wondered…

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