Why Kurt Wagner was banned from Show-And-Tell

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There is a rule in classrooms all over the world. When it’s Show and Tell day, beware the kid with the cardboard box. Or the self-motive brown paper bag.

This time, it was Kurt ‘that weirdo’ Wagner with the cardboard box and the optimistic grin.

His record said he used to work in a circus, and you could believe it, the way he oversold all his presentations with carney-level breathless superlatives.

“Ladies and Gentlemen—”

“Let’s skip the preamble, Wagner.”

“Aaaww…” he sighed. “I humbly submit mein amazing discovery…” He opened the box and yelped.

The box had a hole in the bottom. A gnawed hole. A suspiciously large gnawed hole.

“Ah… heh. Um.” He quickly looked towards all the corners and under all the desks. “Has everyone had their shots?”

The class jock, Ray Billertyne, screamed like a little girl. It began a chain reaction of screaming and panic and a large hairy blur scurrying all through the class.

And Wagner trying to catch it bare-handed.

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