Alternateword Stories

Thirteen-year-old Pietrek Zamoyski had no idea how enormous the consequences would be when he began trying to uncover whatever juicy secret his parents were clearly keeping. Yet he persisted in uncovering it. Through stern fathers, overly-lax teachers, colloquial maids, locked filing cabinets in rooms he had no business being in, a backstabbing friend or two, and increasing lurches in his stomach. His pigheaded insistence on outing the truth may have resulted in him causing his own downfall. Or he may have accidentally galvanized himself to later change his country for the better. Or it may have simply been a neutral, if highly unusual, string of occurrences. Cynically narrated by nineteen-year-old Pietr, this is the short yet extended story of how he got from where he was to the completely different place no one would have guessed he'd end up.