Maria Smiles
“The surgeon slides her finger into one of the shorter wounds. It disappears up to her second knuckle.”
New York, New York | 2004 | By YANNIE TEN BROEKE
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Emotional Charades“I motioned to the paper and smiled at her. The crayon dropped from her hand and rolled off the table.” #7: Empty Tattoo“[My teacher] was smart enough to hate his job, but not smart enough to cut us some slack.” In English“When Huang Yoo entered the classroom, there were vocal expressions of resentment among the Russian senior citizens in the room.” No Different from Anyone Else“During my first week teaching second grade on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, Moses Running Bear, age 7, told me that he wanted to kill himself, his mother, and me.” | Though they became close, Leslie was about to make one colossal mistake. Mother Principals“Ivana’s large, sparkling eyes complemented her thin cheekbones, yet I sensed despair. She seemed to be hanging on by a thread.” | As Ms. Billbe discovered, sometimes the best principals must play the role of parent, too. The CheatHe cheated. In high school, in college, in graduate school. He was always cheating. Not in your traditional sense. He didn’t have cheat sheets. It was far more complicated than that, and he never really knew he was doing it, and certainly not why, until much later. White-out!A little blonde girl stood up, with scorching tears in her eyes, and, with all her might, launched a full, open bottle of white-out across the room. She hit a boy named Jean in the face and fled the class in a full-out run. The room was dead silent. When You Find Your Gods are FallibleWhen she first met the man who would become her driving obsession, she was dumping powdered Rinso into a washing machine at the laundromat just down the hill from the university. By the time she put her clothes in the dryer his eyes were burning a hole in her back. Wishing Myself BackCollege was like that, secret thrills and public accolades for being a good girl away from home. Now her visiting professor said she hadn’t changed a bit, even looked better. She blushed and remembered eating chocolate cream pie from the student union every night.  |
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