Nicki's Arm

Nicki wasn't like most girls. She only had one long finger on her left "hand." She was just born that way. Doctors told her that her one long finger-arm was a miracle of science. But she hated her "tentacle," as the boys at school called it.

She knew she would never be the actress she so desperately wanted to be with her horrid arm, but she could draw. She was the best at drawing people having fun, doing all the things she wished she could do: playing softball, bowling, playing video games, holding babies.

She drew so lovingly that many people wished to purchase her fine art, but they decided not to once they saw her "tentacle." She kept painting anyway, without selling even one work of art, and because she was so stubborn in this way, she eventually died alone, penniless and starving, curling her one long finger, then uncurling it.

The End