It's 10 PM. Do You Know Where Your Pencil Is?

June 16, 2026

Another quarter has passed. With it, another 90 days of searching for my long-lost pencil. The days blur; it has been approximately 8,760 days since my pencil went missing.

Was it kidnapped? Did it run away from home? I cannot answer these questions. All I know is that one day I was jotting notes in 8th grade English. The next, a kid named Jerry had my pencil in his grip.

Efforts to retrieve the pencil were unsuccessful. The case has since gone cold.

I write this as a reminder to you. Keep track of your pencil. Never take it for granted. If you do, you may suffer the agony of a decades-long exercise in heartbroken futility.

I also write it to keep hope alive. While my pencil is now legally presumed dead, I still believe it's out there somewhere.

That's where you come in. The pencil could be anywhere: thrift store bags, garage sales, the dusty far corners of elementary school classrooms. Will you join the search for it?

Here's what we know:

The pencil originated in Columbus, Ohio, around the year 1999. Its clones may be at large in the area.

The pencil went missing in East Central Minnesota around the year 2002. Could its discarded stub haunt the soybean fields?

The pencil looks something like this:

If you have information related to my pencil's disappearance, I want to hear about it. Tips can be submitted via email, through my guestbook, or on my Neocities profile.