“How do you do that?” Mike whispered, peeking at Sulley’s screen. It was elegant. Flawless. A ScareSimulator class with nested factories and dependency injection that made Mike’s head spin.

He added a main method:

Mike’s eye twitched. “But it works , Professor.”

“To clean code,” Sulley replied.

Here’s a short story based on the prompt The Java Scare Mike Wazowski stared at the glowing red text on his terminal. ERROR: NullPointerException at line 42.

“Okay,” Mike whispered to himself. “Break it down. The ScareReport class needs to implement Comparable so we can sort scares by terror-level. Simple.”