Shy
…barged into the science wing, threw his bag on the floor of the chemistry lab and started...
Tag: school
Sisters
The house burbles around us. The water chokes out of the tap. She doesn’t catch our eyes. She...
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
You wake up with the answer to the question that everyone asks. The answer is Yes, and the answer...
Erasure
“Where you think you goin’,” Lois bark at her. Penelope laugh it off just as cool as shit. “I’m...
Never Let Me Go
Anyway, the point is, there was a gap in Miss Emily’s calendar collection: none of them had a...
French Exit
Malcolm was yet in his suite. He was speaking to Susan on the phone. “Let’s eat food, for lunch,”...
In Patagonia
I left the Rio Negro and went on south to Port Madryn. A hundred and fifty-three Welsh colonists...
Real Death
I’ve never thought to do this before, but the lyrics to this song were so beautiful, it...
A Century Later
The school-bell is a call to battle, every step to class, a step into the firing-line. Here is the...
Less Than Zero
One day i saw a boy i had gone to the school with, maybe first grade, standing by the fence, alone, fingers gripping the steel wire and staring off into the distance and i told myself that the guy must live close by or something...
