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AnnO'Neemus said:Which would be great, if 'pen karma' actually worked.
The reason why my pens go missing is because someone else has lost their pen.
Their 'lost' pen hasn't found it's way to me in some kind of pen karma universal balance it's just gone to that mysterious place in the universe where all the odd socks and missing teaspoons go.
When I was in fourth year Juniors, I wrote a story about a planet in a parallel universe. On this planet there were two castes of 'people:' the ruling Biros, and the underling Socks. The Biros would ride the Socks like horses, and have them do all the tasks that they, with their lack of limbs or anything but ink, couldn't do. But the Biros' ink made them powerful, because the pen is mighter than the sock.
The story centred upon their planet's invasion by a high-technology planet in the same parallel universe - the planet of the remote controls! (Probably somewhere in the uncharted territories of the Sofa Galaxy, though that wasn't in my story).
I think the Biros and Socks were supposed to unite aganst this common enemy, but I'm afraid that I never finished the story because I got distracted by writing about time-travel instead.
Even today, I genuinely think that the Universe of Lost Things* is the only rational explanation for the number of things that go missing in my house.
*I know there's a book of a similar title. Theiving bastard!
