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A Future We'd Like To See 1.42 - On the Writer's Block
By Twoflower (Copyright 1994)

Four years had passed.

Four long years, packed with events and people and things,
and he couldn't put them together right, no matter how hard he
tried.

S'ykk looked down at his paper. It clearly wasn't much
better than the sixteen previous drafts. If he had KNOWN he
would have been picked as valedictorian, he would have joined a
biker gang and let his grades slide down the toilet.

S'ykk was very, very good at forming words into sentences,
and sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into works of art.
'Essays' was too mild a term; a typically S'ykk paper would have
the reader undergoing three major changes of character before the
second page.

What he was NOT good at was reading them aloud. His last
experience at public speaking had been in junior high, where he
was forced into Forensics Club by an annoying guidance counselor
("You need some sort of club, or no college will accept you!" the
twit had said). Sure, his informative speech was a moving
tribute to the survivors of the ancient Massacre of G'hjjiyk, but
it had taken forty-seven rewrites to make the paper 'less
embarrassing to be read aloud'. By that point it was cheeseball
drivel which was thrice as embarrassing as his first rough draft.
He made wee wee in his pants and passed out before he could read
it at the podium.

He browsed over his recent draft. It lacked his usual
style; it was barren of comparisons, devoid of metaphor. Too
much historical wrap up, not enough sappy 'I love you all and
this has been the best four years of my life'. Well, only way to
revise is to go over and scratch out the bad bits, he thought.
Whatever's left can be refined, and that'll be that. He got his
white-out pen out of the drawer and began to correct.

"As I look upon the graduating class, I am reminded of how
far we've come in the last four years," the paper read. Cheesy.
White, white white. "We've seen history being made and broken
simultaneously..." What did THAT mean?! White! White! He
continued to read, whiting out the bits that didn't appeal to
him.

"On the political front, we've seen the disbanding of the
Heavily Armed Ambassadors of Friendship and Fun. The government,
in efforts to cut costs as all the transport business slowly