Terminal Paper (100 words)
From Echoalpha
| Type: | Humor |
|---|---|
| Length: | 100 words ("drabble") |
| Date: | September 2007 |
| Warnings: | None. |
For the 
31_days
12-Sep-2007
"an ode to your innocence" challenge.
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei © Kouji Kumeta / Kodansha / Shaft.
Kafuka stood at the front of the class, and began to read from a term paper. "My presentation," she said cheerfully, "is on the epidemic of Japanese people trying to make themselves taller—"
"WHAT!?" Nozomu yelled. "Hasn't this joke gone on long enough, Kafuka!?"
"It's no joke, Mr. Pink Supervisor," an unusually stern Kafuka said. "It's important for us to try to understand how, in a world filled with hope, so many people could believe themselves to be vertically challenged!"
Once again, Nozomu found himself pondering the exact line between sweet (if infuriating) naïveté and profound psychotic denial of reality.
