Does Not Play Well with Others, Part I

The popular girls at school teased Peggy ruthlessly. They called her Square Peg. “Everyone knows you can’t hammer a square peg into a round hole,” Elisha, the school’s most popular girl, said.

“Square Peg! Square Peg! Square Peg!” the others chanted.

“Really?” Peg asked. The next day, she brought her daddy’s sledgehammer to school and waited for the teacher to leave the class. Then she locked the door and proved them wrong.

Maxwell Edison (majoring in medicine) would be proud. Artwork by Adam Archer!