Loving Care: The Stories of Lola Trechlyn

Chapter 15
C5 - Kids Fly Free

Chapter Description: A brief retrospective of a Lola story not originally published in this collection. / Originally published on April 24th, 2011.

"Kids Fly Free" is available on the little trip story page.

Retrospective

The pitch allowed for the potential for this to be a sequel to "No Child Left Behind." Was it actually a good idea for me to do that? Well, as it’s a sequel, it’s almost automatically going to be considered inferior. But I had the opportunity to play with a character we already knew... and satirize the present by portraying a comical future.

That kind of thing can be fun. We all attempt it at one time or another. "Mellow greetings" is, of course, a reference to Demolition Man, probably the funniest such piece ever assembled (though the Starship Troopers film is just a tad more incisive). As for "legally-mandated Christian denomination" -- well, I’m a stinker. I myself enjoyed "Kennedy-Franken Airport," and I’ll completely understand if you groaned at the "Captain Oveur, white courtesy phone." We’re all friends here.

But let’s get to the story. This is a guy who was born in 1989 and was regressed to infancy in 2007. The fact that the same thing would happen to him another 26 years later struck me as riotous. Always in the wrong place at the wrong time. It could almost be a series unto itself. The Die Hard of AR. "Die AR." "Die AR with Incontinence." Stop me when this becomes annoying.

I also hope that I’ll get to regress Baby ’Cotty again someday. Not a bad life, if you don’t mind all the diapers. Old Habits Die AR.

Thanks for reading. -lt