Zach Merkling

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“To Break the Pencil” by Zach Merkling

Submitted to Contest #84

Four white walls, a bed covered with starched sheets, a table, and a chair. Everything surrounding me screams blank. Waking up every day, I wipe the sleep from my eyes and shuffle over to the table where a meal is simply laid out next to a sheet of paper and #2 pencil. Where does it come from? No idea. Oatmeal, again. Everything here is bland.  Picking up the pencil, I begin to mark up a smooth piece of paper. Silence is my best comfort, and the only discontinuities to it are the gentle scratching of graphite on paper and the constant v...

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Husband, Christ-follower, flight instructor, musician, writer. Life is an adventure which must be explored.