2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Out for a Ride

Out for a Ride by Joe Rutch (A Short Story Contest entry)

It was a hot and steamy summer day, so I decided to ride my bike to the corner store for a bottle of soda. As I rode past the woods, I looked down by the creek and saw three little baby bunnies staring at the polluted water they could not drink from. I turned around and went home for a glass of cold water. There was enough plastic pollution on the Earth.