Another Six Sentence Story

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prompt word:  MARK 

 

"hey Mom," Mark yelled as he burst through the door from school like a runner off his mark after hearing the starting pistol, "check out the marks I got on these exams!"

"well, that is fantastic, young man - you've really been hitting the mark this quarter and I'm very proud of you!  umm...what's that mark on your forehead that looks like a question mark?"

"Oh...that's just something a kid in my class did; he bet me an old Deutsche Mark from back before the Euro came out that I couldn't guess what he was drawing on me with his eraser while we were supposed to be learning about how Mark Twain took his name from the term 'marking the twain' on old riverboats, which means the water is 2 fathoms - or 12 feet - deep."

"kiddo, you may be some kind of genius or something, but I fear you may end up being an easy mark for some of your classmates who grow up a little closer to the edge, if you know what I mean."

"I know," he sighed, "but once I manage to make my mark in this world by using my success to help uplift our whole community, they'll thank me, and that will be the best revenge ever."

 

(in case you couldn't guess, I tried to use as many different forms of the prompt word as I could, just for fun.)