The Wondering Machine

In a town where everyone who is old enough carries a small machine that holds every answer ever written down, a girl is given hers on the morning she turns ten, and a week to write in the town's book what she will be. Everyone asks their machine. She asks hers. It cannot tell her.

A fable of about 7,100 words, for everyone who was ever asked what they would be and said "I don't know."