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Weekly Contest #351
David had never written anything good in his life. Not in his school essays, not in his postcards, not even in his diary. He had always found something to blame his failure on, but lately he was running out of fingers to point. It had now been an hour since he set out on his hunt to find something, anything, he could write about, but none of his ideas were working. All of them featured violent, unpleasant deaths and made no sense. They were, as his father called them, ‘a waste of ink’. At first, David’s father had been supportive of his lov...
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