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Lock Down

Carmen BacaMarch 22, 2020

Lock Down written by: Carmen Baca @carmen_author “Lock down, lock down. We are now on lock down.” The receptionist’s voice came over the school int...

EnglishFeatured PostLiterature9 min read

A Simple Act of Kindness

Dawn DeBraalMarch 14, 2020

A Simple Act of Kindness written by: Dawn DeBraal In her first year of teaching, Miss Racheal Mann had grown to love her third-grade students. She a...

EnglishLiterature4 min read

School of The Electric Fence

Doug Stanfield (Hemmingplay)February 28, 2020

School of The Electric Fence written by: Doug Stanfield (Hemmingplay) @hemmingplay I suppose I knew this, once upon a time, but love is a little li...

Doug StanfieldEnglishPoetry0 min read

My Mrs . Gunn

GrendadFebruary 16, 2020

My Mrs. Gunn written by: Grendad My little heart sank when, after a whispered conversation between you and the teacher in front of the class, I was ca...

EnglishLiterature4 min read

An Alternative Christmas Story

M J ChristieDecember 16, 2019

An Alternative Christmas Story written by: M J Christie The rehearsal for the infants alternative Christmas story wasn’t going so well. Silence humm...

ChristmasEnglishLiterature3 min read

The Blue Bomber

James Dean CollinsOctober 27, 2019

The Blue Bomber written by: James Dean Collins @TheGigconomist There’s no better way to arrive at a Halloween party than in style. This is especial...

13 Days of HalloweenEnglishFeatured PostHalloweenLiterature42 min read

Bodies In The Basement

M. TaggartOctober 20, 2019

Bodies In The Basement written by: M. Taggart It was a crisp, damp, October night. “When we get to the Church I’ll go down first.” Colin was thinking...

13 Days of HalloweenEnglishFeatured PostHalloweenLiterature12 min read

Ellen and The Class

Katy SantiffOctober 3, 2019

Ellen and The Class written by: Katy Santiff The two of us, in mornings on the hill, walked there forwards, towards that bastion's will t...

EnglishPoetry0 min read

The Field of Play

Mike SharlowSeptember 7, 2019

The Field of Play written by: Mike Sharlow Our world revolved around “the field.” It was about fifty yards wide from the street to the block wall of S...

EnglishFeatured PostLiterature18 min read

Do As I Say

Dana KinseyAugust 7, 2019

Do As I Say written by: Dana Kinsey @wordsbyDK "Nothing" was my answer most days It reverbed in passive echoes "What can you add?" was the question...

EnglishPoetry0 min read

Eleanor and The Body Stretcher

Phyllis SouzaAugust 4, 2019

Eleanor and The Body Stretcher written by: Phyllis Souza The year was 1953. After school on Thursdays and Fridays and all day on Saturdays, Elean...

EnglishLiterature5 min read

Brown Eyed Girl

Linda M. CrateJune 8, 2019

brown eyed girl written by: Linda M. Crate @thysilverdoe i remember once upon a time i was jealous of your blue eyes, and i remember when you m...

EnglishPoetry0 min read

The Conjurer

Matthew Roy DaveyMay 17, 2019

The Conjurer written by: Matthew Roy Davey Sawyers let us into the lab and we took our seats. A Bunsen burner, clamp, and some other device wer...

EnglishLiterature2 min read

Rakshasa’s Return

Jim Davis (Nobody)April 13, 2019

Rakshasa's Return written by: NOBODY Squealing children freed from the prison of 4th grade swarmed out of class to the rat-a-tat of the final school...

EnglishLiterature34 min read

“Lock down, lock down. We are now on lock down.” The receptionist’s voice came over the school intercom over the incessant buzzing of the alarm bells located in every hall of every phase of the building. I thanked my lucky stars I wasn’t in my regular classroom with my fourth period of thirty-one freshmen. I was teaching my last class of the day in the computer lab of phase five, one of the more isolated wings of the large oddly-shaped school where I’d been teaching for years. There were only seven students in class that day, it being a Friday afternoon ...