Rosalind stood meekly on the head teacher’s carpet as she had so often done before.
Miss Carver said sternly: “It’s a new term and you’re not in uniform. Your hair is a disgrace and you know make-up is not allowed. Whose class are you in?”
“Actually, I left four years ago. I’m here to teach third year English,” murmured Rosalind.
Mary Cook is a UK-based freelance writer and former newspaper reporter. Her articles, short stories and poems have appeared in numerous publications, both in print and online. For a number of years she was an overseas correspondent for the Tokyo-based Hiragana Times, as well as a spoof agony aunt for an adult newspaper. Her main writing interests are humor, horror, self-sufficient living, and the craft of writing. Her e-books, Top Tips to Enjoy Your Retirement and Top Tips to Please Your Partner are available at www.toptipsto.com.
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15 Responses to “A NEW TERM • by Mary Cook”
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February 18th, 2008 at 4:53 am
Quite so.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:32 am
Nicely done!
February 18th, 2008 at 5:58 am
Oh yes.
Nicely done
Mike
February 18th, 2008 at 7:19 am
FUN!
February 18th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Ha! I knew it was true. You can’t go back home.
LOL! Great way to start the week. Thanks, Mary.
February 18th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Funny! I’ll bet she becomes the favorite teacher.
February 18th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Funny, but also a nice way to introduce Rosalind as a character. It reminded me a little of an episode of “What Not To Wear” about a teacher who dresses like her students.
February 18th, 2008 at 10:23 am
I had a teacher exactly like the appropriately-named Miss Carver. Well done!
February 18th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Loved this. Made me laugh. Sounds about right in todays world.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Loved the quick twist.
Cheers
Mark
February 27th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
A rejected author speaks.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
You’re kidding, right? This is just some idiot spamming the board and you’re going to clean it up any moment now, right EDF Staff?
What a sad display of no class, if so.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Actually, we’re tracking this down as we speak. This is someone’s kid sister.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Excellent! Knew we could rely upon you, Jordan.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Just wanted to see if I could get a fix on this person’s actual identity. I write code in my spare time and have some tools not available to the general public. Unfortunately they stopped posting before I could get a fix on their postion.
I know they were posting from a University in Renwick, Virginia, and they have an inactive myspace page, but I couldn’t get too much more, at the moment.