The Boy Who Needed Nothing (a short story) The boy who needed nothing had no need for crayons, or even those markers that smell like things and everyone always wants the black licorice even though people always say they hate black licorice in real life. When the boy wanted to color, he colored nothing, with nothing, leaving the paper blank, and also not using the paper because he needed nothing, remember? He did not eat, or drink, because he needed nothing, which unsettled his parents, but as he grew that was the least of their worries because he began to be more... well destructive isn't the word, so negative, in the sense of an adverb meaning he negated things. He needed nothing, and as time went on he needed more and more nothing, addition by subtraction. Nobody knew how he did it, because already there was nobody left to know things besides the boy himself, and he continued needing nothing including knowledge of things so that went too, and before long everything even this sto