Aldo’s Diary
I set out to write a novel, and ended up with this short story draft. Thanks to Mary Collins for some editing. Comments most welcome.
ALDO’S DIARY by Frank Morgan
“Mom, Penny beat me at chess.” Penny’s mother, Elizabeth Murrow, stopped loading the clothes washer and stopped thinking about triangles in the hyperbolic plane.
“Penny?”
“Yes, I did — I beat Aldo at chess. And he’s two years older than me.”
“But I thought you said you weren’t any good at games.”
“I didn’t think I was.”
“Aldo, did you let her win?”
“She forked my king and my rook.”
“Penny, you forked his king and his rook?”
“Yes, I planned it, like Dad did to me last night. I attacked his king and his rook at the same time with my knight, and since he had to move his king, I got his rook.”
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