I saw this story the other day and had to post. I wrote a short story last year about a few murderous 10-year olds who tried to kill their teacher for "being mean". They failed in the execution as they made some critical errors in judgement.
Shouldn't be a huge surprise. Kids are kind of dumb. Or, at least, they don't do a great job of taking the long view beyond what's right in front of them.
And they're lazy. At least I was.
Like the time I dreamed up a motorized skateboard. I drew elaborate plans, researched possible motors (a really big deal since this was pre-interweb) and talked about it. A lot. For a whole week.
Then I was trying to figure out how to turn the back yard into a mini-golf course like putt putt. I dug a hole. Period.
That was quickly forgotten when the new comics came in and I was absorbed with how SGT ROCK and EASY COMPANY were going to get back to the present after fighting Nazis training dinosaurs in a prehistoric era. (p.s. they found their way back through a time portal after throwing a potato masher grenade into a Tyrannosaurus Rex's open jaws). Whew. War *is* hell.
Anyway, someone (OK, a few people) commented in my writing class that in my story, it seemed unrealistic for 10-year-old kids to think the way they did and speak the way I'd portrayed them n my story (coincidentally, also set in Georgia).
Truth *is* stranger than fiction, though, and this news story today trumps mine. The kids are younger, their plot more elaborate and their planning more meticulous. Maybe I'll go back to my original story and add some dinosaurs and nazis.
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