Jane angles her battery lantern to try to catch the pages of both her calculus book and her graph paper. She should have had this homework done earlier and she’s paying the price now. No time tomorrow, either, what with having to go to work at the Job From Hell, but hey–it’s a job.
Her fingers massage gently under her tired eyes. This would be a lot easier if she had an all-night library, or a good math brain, or electricity. Or, you know, even the legal right to live here, instead of hiding in the basement like the squatter she is.
This is a vignette from The Life and Times of Jane Doe for the Six Sentence Stories blog hop. This week’s cue was “light.” Fun Sixes from other writers are here.
99 Monkeys 
The fortitude to learn when circumstances are so dire… I often wonder about inner city kids going to school in dangerous streets daily and knowing all day they have to do it again to get home…and we expect them to be able to concentrate on math in between???
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Right? Those kids deserve so much more credit than they get!
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It sounds like Jane has a pretty miserable existence at the moment, and I’m wondering how long she can continue before she is discovered there.
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Me too. I’m plotting. 🙂
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Hopefully, all her hard work and her dire circumstances will be recognized and she will eventually find herself in a better place of existence.
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That’s her plan, anyway. 🙂
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you know what came to mind, almost right away? the movie ‘Fight Club’ nicely created world there, yo
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*light bulb* I see it now too. Thanks, yo.
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