Stories from Elton High

Arden's a good kid. He keeps his head down in school and gets good grades. Thus far, he's done a fairly decent job of staying afloat in the hectic sea of life... until a letter comes from school informing him of a new physical education requirement: "Every student, regardless of species, must run a mile in under nine minutes. Failure to do so will result in remediate gym time." Arden shrugs, throws on a ratty shirt and heads out to the school track to see if he can even run a mile, let alone do it in under nine minutes...