THE GARDEN OF EDEN
... at some point something must have come from nothing ...
Sophie Amundsen was on her way home from school. She had walked the first part of
the way with Joanna. They had been discussing robots. Joanna thought the human
brain was like an advanced computer. Sophie was not certain she agreed. Surely a
person was more than a piece of hardware?
When they got to the supermarket they went their separate ways. Sophie lived on the
outskirts of a sprawling suburb and had almost twice as far to school as Joanna. There
were no other houses beyond her garden, which made it seem as if her house lay at the
end of the world. This was where the woods began.
She turned the corner into Clover Close. At the end of the road there was a sharp bend,
known as Captain's Bend. People seldom went that way except on the weekend.
It was early May. In some of the gardens the fruit trees were encircled with dense