I can't do it. I can't. Oh god, this was such a bad idea. Parker stood in the small staff parking lot and leaned against her car, shivering. The sun hadn't yet risen and there was a surprisingly stiff breeze winding its way between the buildings. Ruwake High School loomed over her and she dug around in her purse, grabbing her pack of smokes and her lighter....
Fall Semester – College Senior – Student Teaching – Early 1970's Besides student teaching, we had a required Thursday evening seminar led by our faculty supervisor. We were teamed up with another student teacher and given projects which required that we meet with our "seminar partner" at least one or two times during the week to prepare for our Thursday cla...
My wife and I live in a very nice quiet neighborhood and know all the people who live on our street. Our daughter has a friend who lives on our street. They've been friends since they were in 7th grade but now both have now turned 18 and graduated high school. Her friend, Addy, is basically part of the family as she comes by nearly daily and hangs out with u...
Before graduating from college, I faced a common dilemma: What am I going to do with the rest of my life. I knew that I wanted to go to graduate school, but I also wanted to work for a few years. At the same time, I wasn't interested in entering the business world. After discussing my "dilemma" with my brother, he suggested that I move west and look for a t...
"Oh Alan, this stuffy old school gives me the creeps." said Dorothy to her handsome Husband, the new school master of the dreaded upper sixth. Alan agreed with his beautiful young Wife, "it is a bit old fashioned Dorothy, rigidly maintaining the 'traditional' school values, as everyone keeps endlessly repeating." They were alone now in the school master's...
The Letter A week later, the clock in the living room chimed ten as Carol came downstairs from her bedroom to face another day. She hadn't seen Arthur for a week. He was away playing some shows in the North East. While he had been away she had reverted to her normal life style- travelling by bus to her pupils' homes where she would teach them piano for an...
This takes place after "Wanda Karaoke Contest." Before the weather turned cold the nursing and teaching college held a carwash. The funds were used to pay for a trip to Chicago for a college recruitment conference. Usually, the teaching students and the nursing students would have separate stations and compete to see who raised the most money. The winning t...
Chapter 1 It was a bright, sunny day as Charlotte Henderson drove up the driveway that led to St Jude's School for Troubled Young Men. It was an imposing, official-looking building; it housed between five hundred and eight hundred and fifty men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one, all of whom had been in some trouble with the law. St Jude's was a la...
My name is Chris Wills and I am a widower of four years. Whats more, I still live in the same house that I bought when my wife and I first got married. It is good that I finished paying off the mortgage over a year ago. It has a full basement and a full attic two and a half baths. I am reasonably well off so money is not a real problem for me. It was fairly...
End of Summer Session -- July 14th 2020 Professor Jennifer Mclaren was fed up having to teach online classes using Zoom, and the past few months had been long and unsettling. Overall, she found the online process awkward and ineffective. She was becoming accustomed to seeing eyes glaze over. Having had enough, she decided to break the rules. The online sum...