Carrot Ranch November 9 flash fiction challenge: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that pivots around an unexpected ending.
Jane tucks her hands inside her sleeves. Why is the math lab always freezing?
Dendrite, she writes, but draws a blank. She moves on. Axon. Vesicle. She writes the definitions neatly. The biopsychology final is tomorrow; she’s never felt stupider.
Alarm twinges as the math professor heads her way. Is she going to be reprimanded, maybe lose her lab credits, for working on not-math? The signs are posted everywhere. She shifts some calculus notes to cover the open textbook.
“Jane,” smiles Rosalie. “Do you have a minute? A tutor position has come open. I thought you might be interested.”
This is a vignette from The Life and Times of Jane Doe. Fun flashes from other writers can be found at the Carrot Ranch link above.
99 Monkeys 
An unexpected ending for both character and reader alike.
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Poor Jane needs a break, for sure!
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I could use a math tutor! Not one of my strongest subjects… though I’ve gotten better.
And I know how to make change at a cash register – which, sigh, most young people don’t seem to know since now everything is automated. 🙂
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In recent college math classes I was pleasantly surprised to discover aptitude I didn’t know I had. And I always like running into someone who knows how to make change and count it back. Definitely a lost skill.
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Neat flash, Deborah. My first degree was in mathematics and psychology, so both Jane’s themes are familiar to me. And I loved the maths library, as much for my early attempts of fiction as anything!
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I think writing fiction was about the only way I didn’t goof off in math lab!
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I was tensing up for Jane, but that’s getting busted in a good way!
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