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The Kitten and the Premier {A Short Story}
I wrote the following story as part of an assignment, which was to show the reader something unexpected about a character in a story. This short story could serve as an introduction to a larger story I’m in the process of writing. The Premier is a totalitarian dictator who uses his unique abilities to keep the planet cloudy, dark, and under his control. The main character in my story is a boy named Alex who can gather light and use the energy from that light to create doorways between worlds. He and the Premier’s People end up at odds with each other. I may post the larger story here in…
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My First Few Weeks of Teaching (And What Happened)
We started school almost three weeks ago. The first week went by slowly–I felt like a month had passed, when really it had only been a few days. The next week went by even faster. This past week flew by so fast that I kept thinking Tuesday was Monday and Wednesday was Tuesday. I had a feeling time would start to pass quicker the longer we went to school. School seems like a trip to and from somewhere you have never visited before: the trip there seems to pass slowly, mile and after mile filled with new sights, but the trip home buzzes by so fast you can barely remember…