(Xercka the Tooth)

(by Shauna Werner)

Xercka the Tooth was at it again floating in the middle of deep space with a splash of nowhere to add to the absolute nothingness of nothing. The only other things with him were his starbubbles, which soon popped for lack of Co2, which they thrived off of. Soon Xercka began to feel very strange. e began elongating and getting skinnier. e felt his eyes pop. Soon he had no facial features left. e was !ust a being of light and shadow, with no apparent anything. The only thing he knew was the feeling of nothingness and the occasional popping sound of loose mitochondria There are a few things you need to know about Xercka before we go on. "ne he#s an evolutionary megamorphosis of a $reek hen. % know this sounds slightly strange, but his genes got messed up when he was still !ust a star. Two he#s really &uite a pleasant fellow. Sometimes people !ust get freaked out if a part of him appears in their tea while he is morphing. %t is really &uite a harmless substance, and he comes and gets it out immediately. 'ost humans shriek and throw their tea out the window (ell, anyway, back to Xercka. Three he has the ability to read, so if you try and write anything bad about him, he will see and go on strike. S" ()TC "*T+ ,ust one last thing here T %S -%TT-. '"/0 %1$ T""T %S T . C)*S. "2 )-- T . $/)22%T% %1 T . ("/-3+++ e sneaks around at night and graffiti#s everything up, and then he leaves traces so it looks like a human did it. e#s &uite a strange little fellow. 4ou should get to know him sometime. )nd so we !oin leave Xercka suspended in deep space while he is morphing. Soon, wiggly green things start popping into sight. Xercka recogni5es them as lettuce. ) carrot starts growing down from the top of his space. The vegetables start bringing in more Co2, so his friends the starbubbles and many other of his little friends such as the swirlie5 start coming back his is &uickly changing into a fork. Soon, the transformation is complete. Xercka so ecstatic that his transformation went well that he gives a little hop. )s he is rela6ing in the foamy air that surrounds him, he suddenly wakes up from his state of half7 consciousness. The vegetables start shrinking and then they disappear completely. Then his friends burst since their Co2 source has been cut off. Xercka starts growing shorter and s&uatter. e slowly turns a bright shade of white. is eyes, nose and mouth come back. ) tooth again he was+++ Xercka rocketed off from his nothingness and went to find a nice cavity in a mouth to sit in.