The guy with the fingernails must die!
Fingernails
a short story
by Zoran Zivkovic
translated from the Serbian by Alice Copple-Tosic
Mr. Prohaska collected his fingernail clippings. He’d been doing it since the age of eight, when he cut them by himself for the first time. He was so proud of the fact that he’d managed to cut them without his mother’s help and without doing himself any harm that he decided to save the ten little sickles as proof of this feat. He’d had to do it in secrecy because his mother certainly wouldn’t have let him keep them. He put them in a little plastic bag and stuck a label on it with the date. Letters were still giving him trouble, but at that early age he was already skilled with numbers. He then put the bag in a hidden place.
~SNIP~ the rest of it at link
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/fingernails.htm