Gyroscope
January 25, 2008Walking down the broad halls in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, where airplanes and shuttles times heavier and bigger than me ominously hang above my head, I reach a fancy metallic object encapsulated in a glass box. An axis embraced by intertwining wheels. Getting a bit edgy as I always do when there is something I do not understand, I activate all of my senses in a frenzied search of a clue, of an explanation. “Gyroscope” the sign reads and I am reminded of a physics class in which I fiddled raptly with a simpler and smaller gyroscope.
I like this piece up until the last line. You break from your writing style as you go into the other memory. I think because these 100 word pieces are so short that having 2 memories takes the detail away from both. Leaving it at ‘I am reminded of a physics class’ gives plenty of detail and avoids wasting your precious words on repeating gyroscope!
I am dissatisfied with the ending for the exact same reason. It seems to have been chopped from somewhere and put here without any good reason. I will try not to ramble around many memories (unless it is totally necessary to) in my other 100-word shorts. Thanks for commenting!