My short story a day in the life of an electron

By An Electron

December 14, 2003:

Today I whizzed around my nucleus. It is a carbon atom. It is very nice, unlike my friends’ nucleuses that got stuck with dumb alkaline metals.

But seriously, being an electron is awesome. I get to react with other elements. My only regret with my compound is that it is slowly being split in half.

Whatever – Oh, I see an element to react with. Oh yeah, now I can form a chemical bond. Wow, look at the size of that other nucleus. Hey, that’s my friend from college. “Hey Bob; are you with a uranium atom now?” I yell. He replies “Is that you? How’s it going?” I say, “Good, check out my atom. It’s carbon”. He then mentions – pointing to a crowd of neutrons - “The only problem is that neutron over there – he’s a jerk. He thinks he’s great, but he doesn’t even have a charge”.

After my short reunion, I whizz around my nucleus some more.