A retired yellow school bus is the inspirational protagonist of Loren Long's sentimental story about a life-long career and eternal life.
Characters: Yellow Bus, school children, elders, goats, aquatic life
Theme: service
Conflict: a journey
Plot: Yellow Bus proudly starts her career transporting her community's children from one important place to another. She then transfers to another job and begins transporting the community's seniors from one important place to another. Then, she is retired.
In retirement, she takes on a new role, sheltering the homeless in her community from the cold and rain.
When the community decides to clear her lot, she is towed to the country and left in a pasture. There she serves as a play structure for the farmer's goats until the day the river floods and takes her to her final resting place.
Setting: City scape, country
