Class Conflict

Courtesy the National Gallery of Art. Public domain.

She shook so much that her desk wobbled while she clutched her hands tightly to each other.

She saw them everywhere: with their bellies full o’ variously colored words & #s—their ints, bools, & doubles, or their publics, privates, protected, & even their statics & virtuals.

“Your panicking’s just paranoia,” the student next to her said as he pushed up his glasses. “Now, I don’t see any class anywhere. I just see stuff.”

From ‘hind a class rushed toward him with its yawning braces teeth & crunched him in its maw, breaking his body down into nutrients in its destructor.

Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell the destructor that that kid wasn’t a true kid. He was only the pointer to a true kid.

The destructor forgot to delete the kid.

Now his memory haunts the world forever.

Prompt:

Class, clutch, withdrawal