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My Pencil Suddenly Started Talking!

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Written in October 2026, Busan. Also in Korean in The World Through My Head.

I was just packing my bag at school when I heard a voice: “Psst, psst, hey you! Help me outta here before I suffocate! Psst!” “Who are you? And how are you talking?” I said. It was a mystery. But when I heard it again, it was coming from my pencil case! So out of curiosity, I took out my pencil case and “rescued” the pencil. Immediately after I took the pencil out, it opened my sketchbook and started drawing something.

“So, you want an eraser?” I said. “No, I need an eraser that lives and talks like me. You see, I am a very powerful pencil, so everything I think about becomes real. So, to fix this, I need a powerful eraser,” it said. “So right now I have two questions. One: isn’t it good that everything you think becomes real? Two: if you need a powerful eraser, can’t you make one?” I said. “Firstly, if I don’t get an eraser fast, all of my thoughts will become real, time and reality will break, and the sky will fall! Secondly, I cannot make a being with simply a thought, because the precious organisms of the world were not meant to be spawned out of nowhere,” the pencil said wisely. Then, suddenly, someone shouted and pointed at an eraser. Then the eraser flew to the pencil, and they made a big “bang” sound. After that, they became the gods of thought. And it all started with me packing up a bag.

Thank you for reading! ☺

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