Mind Writer

another prompt, we had to describe something that's 'impossible', I just chose to put mine in a scene

Essays. Essays, essays, essays... You'd think that maybe in the year 3,045, teachers would have figured it out that homework really SUCKS. But of course not, the universe just hates kids.

Humans have evolved, and I estimate that you're reading this in the year 2,012, so long ago. I wonder if you looked different, you're so primitive! With your paper money and your gravity bound transportation... what's it called? Cars, right.

We're smarter now, the average IQ is 130, mine happens to be 190, I'm smarter than your average bear. ( I heard that was a saying back then, but I don't know what a bear is.)

I sit down at my desk, which, judging from the pictures of teenage human rooms in textbooks from your time, they look relatively similar.

I pick up my black ink pen and a few pieces of paper, and start writing. But my mind wanders off, as it so often does, grabbing at tiny details and enhancing them, getting all the information from them as I can, such as the way my capital T's look, how the line crossing the top is slanted instead of perfectly straight, and how that implies that I'm writing quickly, my hand beginning to cramp.

By the end of page one, I've forgotten what I'm writing about, it's merely a minor worry in the back of my mind. Only taking a small amount of brain power to process and write the information about The Civil War. I can't believe people were so stupid to argue over skin color, and then kill their own brothers.

My hand cramps, and my full attention goes to my essay. I drop the pen, wishing it could just read my mind and write it down, but who knows what would end up on that piece of paper. My mind wanders off with the idea, almost a daydream. I'm not a writer, I'm not a fan of it, so if something would do it for me, that would be wonderful...

When I come to, my multi-tasking mind has made my hands move. They are now fiddling with the pen, different materials, wires, tools. When did I get up and get those? Such is the life of a wandering mind. I decide to zone out once more, because if I pay attention to what I'm doing, I'll have to actually command my brain to know what it's doing and how, and I find I do a better job when I'm not consciously thinking about it.

When I emerge from the dust once more, floating in front of me, is a pen.

During the civil war I think, the pen scrawls across the page, the words appearing in my quirky handwriting.

And so, the Mind Writer was born.

Author's Note

reviews please!

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

A IQ of 190. You could save the world or destroy it? Good thoughts in the story. I believe homework had changed since my time in school. A lot of reports and reading for us. Computer and internet allowed you to track and find information with ease today. Kids of today must learn a lot more. I like the way you ended the excellent story.
Coyote

[Michael Thrower]

An.

[Jamal]

damn, that's awesome. i wish it was set in this time though

[♪The Girl Next Do..]

Excellent! This is such a new, unwritten topic. I haven't read anything on here aboutbthe future, let alone the future looking back on the past. I love it!

[Odayin]

I was getting worried that they would still be using normal pens so many years later! So nice ending.
I like how you described a typical kid's thoughts as they do homework or think about why they're doing it.
I also liked your view on the civil war. That's pretty much it in a nutshell according to a lot of people. It's kinda sad in the way that people work, but it's quite interesting

[Celestial Witch Child]

Good potential idea, but the whole thing felt pretty labored.

[Dean Kuch®]

Wow, Mind Writing is way better than that Dragon voice recognition Software ever hoped to be! Alas, I'll never see the year 3,045 though. Oh well, you can't have everything. That would leave nothing for anyone else ;)...
Intersting Sci-Fi piece!