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Pencil Unsharpener

Four quick turns and I pull my pencil out of the sharpener. No good. Another two and now my pencil’s gone crooked. What? Quickly, I sharpen as fast as I can, completely aware of the other twenty-two eyes watching me fail at sharpening a pencil. I pull it out again, half expecting to see smoke coming from the end of the yellow wood, and find that I’m back where I started. Great. I look quickly at the my teacher who is giving me a “The test can’t start until you get done” kinda look. Yeah? Well, not my fault buddy. This thing’s evil.

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