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Weekly Contest #281
I am a boring old pencil. The long, yellow, bland kind. The one with a normal-shaped graphite piece. The one with that cylinder-shaped eraser that’s pink and not shaped like something cool, or colored something awesome. The boring kind. I am so unlucky. All the other pencils get taken away to be heroes, to be treated like they’re queens, to be shown off. They’re the ones with cool designs printed on them, heart-shaped graphite pieces, and erasers that sharpen to a point. They’re the chosen ones. They’re th...
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