The Sparrow's Nest

My own elementary school down in Mesa, Arizona provided the setting. The place has changed a lot since I've been there. I mean, they have uniforms now, so I had to do some research before I took my character there. Carrina's house is loosely based off of the house I used to live in when I was in grade school. Even that place has since been utterly destroyed in the sense that someone chopped down all the trees, killed the grass and covered the wooden walls with stucco. The mailbox is gone and the numbers are just spray painted onto the house. Anyway, the place has gone to pot. So the house Carrina lives in is the one that I knew, with the trees and the mailbox and the grass.

Scientists say we come from monkeys because something about monkeys being smart and because Darwin said so. Well Darwin tossed his own idea out. Besides, whales and dolphins are smart too. I would much rather come from something beautiful than something that eats bugs out of its butt. Of course, if we all come from apes, why do black people go into an uproar if someone calls them monkey? It's the simple fact that being called a monkey is an insult. Scientists say life started in Africa, with monkeys, where all the Africans are. Is it just me or is the whole theory a racist one? It's like saying aliens built the pyramids. Somebody has no faith in human ingenuity. Anyway, when something evolves, doesn't the evolved form vanish? Or are there still monkeys because some chose not to evolve like a Pokemon? Which means monkeys are thinking people, or thinking Pokemon. Yeah, right. Scientists probably just want an excuse to practice bestiality, but monkeys don't sleep with dogs...