Because of a mix up at my high school I just found out I won Gold Medal for Humor from the 2008 Scholastic Art & Writing awards! It was for a short story I wrote when I was 17 called Canadian Penny. You can read the whole thing here. If you don’t have that kind of time here’s an excerpt:
One interesting fact about the Canadian penny (and believe it, there are many) is that the Canadian penny, being worth even less than an American Penny, is not actually used in Canada, or anywhere in the world for that matter. In 1975, the Society of Freemasons designed and minted over 200 million of them in an attempt to inconvenience and ultimately break down American vending machine companies. It was believed that Canadian pennies would bring about the eventual collapse of the entire U.S. economy, leaving America wide open to be overtaken by the Masons (as if it wasn’t enough that they’re already pulling all the strings behind NASA, Congress and PBS.) The Canadian penny is about the same size as an American penny but it is three times as deadly if swallowed, as it is made of poison instead of copper. Also, it has a maple leaf on the tails side instead of the Lincoln Memorial.
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