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Supernova
- Joined
- Mar 17, 2012
Class was close to ending, and at this point in the day Martin was already starting to hand back the previous days writing assignments. The english teacher had just gone through a rather nasty, and lengthy divorce, and it had shown on his body. He had lost weight from not sleeping well, his blue button up shirt, was untucked and had a few stains, and his watch was set an hour early so that he could actually gather up the motivation to get moving before the end of the day. It seemed like the only thing he had been doing to keep up his appearance was stepping into the shower each morning, his short blond hair was growing long, and frayed in places, and he hadn't shaved in a day or two so he was starting to get a darker shadow around his face.
As he walked through the class Martin was busy handing back assignments. He had asked the class to hand him in some short stories, and they had ranged in quality from the fantastic to complete garbage, but there had been one that had caused him to pause. When he got to Jessica's desk he handed it back along with a note to meet him after class was out. Her story had been harshly errotic, even for an 18 year old's point of view, and as a teacher he had to at least act concerned when he got this kind of thing. they were partly red flags, especially when they involved torture and that kind of thing. He glanced over her for a moment trying to see if he could see any signs of abuse on her body, bruising in obvious spots scars near her wrists when she took back the paper, anything that would tip him off that he would have to actually do his job and report the girl's family.
If not than he had a few other things he could say about it, as it had easily been the best in the class, and well worth the A he had put on the paper. Walking to his desk he dismissed the class. "Tomorrow we will be looking into starting our first term book study, on the table you will find Marry Shelley's Frankenstein, and no watching the old movies do not count as reading the book we will be focusing more on the letters and format contained within the novel, as with most of your reading list this year we are taking a look at illusion, and framing devices."
He sighed as the bell rang and students started to groan and mutter as they left the room, he on the other hand sat at his desk waiting for them all to filter out, and be gone for the day.
As he walked through the class Martin was busy handing back assignments. He had asked the class to hand him in some short stories, and they had ranged in quality from the fantastic to complete garbage, but there had been one that had caused him to pause. When he got to Jessica's desk he handed it back along with a note to meet him after class was out. Her story had been harshly errotic, even for an 18 year old's point of view, and as a teacher he had to at least act concerned when he got this kind of thing. they were partly red flags, especially when they involved torture and that kind of thing. He glanced over her for a moment trying to see if he could see any signs of abuse on her body, bruising in obvious spots scars near her wrists when she took back the paper, anything that would tip him off that he would have to actually do his job and report the girl's family.
If not than he had a few other things he could say about it, as it had easily been the best in the class, and well worth the A he had put on the paper. Walking to his desk he dismissed the class. "Tomorrow we will be looking into starting our first term book study, on the table you will find Marry Shelley's Frankenstein, and no watching the old movies do not count as reading the book we will be focusing more on the letters and format contained within the novel, as with most of your reading list this year we are taking a look at illusion, and framing devices."
He sighed as the bell rang and students started to groan and mutter as they left the room, he on the other hand sat at his desk waiting for them all to filter out, and be gone for the day.