Playing with Fire

The trouble with humans

Tess Wheeler
Nov 7 · 12 min read
Photo by Marc Szeglat on Unsplash

Long, long ago — but not quite at the beginning…

Cub could see Saku was vibrating with annoyance and this unsettled him greatly. It was never good news to be summoned into the presence of the Supreme Architect of the Known Universe, but it looked as though he was in serious trouble this time.

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Tess Wheeler

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Writer, editor and English teacher. Reader and beach-walker. I used to live in Hong Kong and London but now I’m back home in the North East of England.

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