Challenge Word: Scavenge
Sam gets distracted working on a math problem.
Warnings/Spoilers: None, pre-series Stanford drabble
100 words per MS Word Count
Here's Looking at You
By Swellison
Sam's mechanical pencil lead quit while he was solving the third Fourier transform. He opened his desk drawer, stuck his hand inside and scavenged for another pencil by feel. Fingers encountering something unexpectedly smooth, he pulled the object out. He stared at the almost twenty years-old photograph of his parents. Mom looked beautiful, and Dad's smiling face and clean-shaven features were practically unrecognizable compared to his habitual hunter's grizzle, meant to keep his face hidden at night.
Pinning the photo to his bulletin board, Sam resolved to buy a proper frame, and to add pictures of his new, normal life.