Deep Thoughts, by Alden Koschmann

10pm:

Soren, did you know there's a number that if the oldest person in the world had started writing the second she was—

Or he.

What?

Or he. 

No, she.

How do you know?

Well, I... it's ... I'm just telling you. Anyway. If she had started writing the number the second she was born, she wouldn't even be done writing it when she died. It's THAT long.

Like a thousand? 

Much longer.

Oh. How old was she?

I don't know, but really really old. And she wouldn't even be able to write the number even if that's all she ever did.

Oh. Mom? I can't sleep.