Dinosaurs

I had to get in, I had to go to bed.  I was locked out, but now I had my clean laundry, and I had to get in.  The wheels are worn off into two centimeter remnants of two inch wide wheels, and I was pulling toward I didn’t know what.  While I had been […]

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For Regular People

Only once did I sit on the floor of the bathroom and cry, and I locked the door to do it, so I could really let it go, and I felt a lot better afterward.  When I wanted to run from the classroom, I stood my ground and didn’t remember to take deep breaths or […]

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Where

  This kid was sitting in my room, I realized it was his lunch time.  “Aren’t you supposed to be somewhere?” I said. New teacher to the school, here is a list of things I didn’t know this morning: If not going to the cafeteria during lunch is a punishable offense. How to print anything. […]

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Survey

As I was leaving school, a kid who drove me crazy and the mom he also drives crazy were in the hallway.  “You must be Ms Schurman,” she said.  “He talks about you.” “Oh,” I said, blah, blah, blah.  Neither of us was under the illusion that kid was easy, yet the kid has, since […]

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