Wonderful story. Well narrated and well described. It seems a story based on real events or at least you know the activities of the miners.
Day two for Carl will be softer but the learning will be bigger.
It has been a great pleasure to have read @free-reign
Thank you for your compliment @marcybetancourt! This is going to be a "longer" short story, (is there another name for that?), with more coming. The Wiki Commons has some great photos to go along with my project, and I'm very thankful for that!
I will wait for your fabulous and entertaining short (long) stories
Thank you for reading and for your nice comment! I'm hoping to get day two out later today or tomorrow. I'm going to try getting all the parts I'm going to be writing close together. Thank you for your support! :)