Whose idea was it to begin the school day with recess?

Mine.

How’d it go?

Not too well. A game of hide and seek was over within minutes when my siblings found me in the basement.

I’ve learned my lesson. Playing hooky is a bad idea.

Especially for the homeschooled.

John H. Dromey has had flash fiction published in a number of anthologies (print and electronic), as well as online at The Fast-Forward Festival, Liquid Imagination, three minute plastic, and elsewhere.