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H.S. Wift: A Thousand Miles... Exercises

Under Sloan’s pressing, H. finally confessed to his blockage. He expected to be fired immediately. However, contrary to his reputation for severity, Sloan assigned H. a series of restorative exercises for the remainder of the day, presumably because of the potential of H.’s talents. These exercises consisted of simply writing endings for existing cliches, many of which H. would have been familiar given that this same exercise was given to job applicants.

H. returned to his desk and began on the exercises.

At 6pm that evening, Sloan collected the exercises for evaluation.

Sloan was appalled by what he read:
You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it wear a corset.
It’s always darkest just before opening my eyes at 2am on December 21 with a heavily overcast sky.
A bird in the hand is worth about 8p in Highgate market, regular price.
Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day; teach a man to fish and maybe he’ll get the hell away from me.

H. was fired 10 minutes later.

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