"A volunteer tutor has an unexpected experience"
The memo on the information board in the foyer was a request for volunteer tutors. As I had a light schedule in this semester of college, I decided to attend the information session and see what's involved. There were a dozen others in...
"She gives him another chance. He puts it to good use. Alas, everything comes to an end."
I woke up with a dry mouth and a disgustingly sour taste on my tongue. In the bathroom, I tried to drink away the nasty feeling but my throat was so raspy from the dehydration—almost sticky—that I had to force...
"He's sixteen. His parents go on summer vacation. Two weeks with a babysitter? Blegh! ...or is it?"
“But, Mooommm,” the way I stressed the last 'm', the tone came out a lot whinier than I had intended. “I don't need a babysitter. I'm sixteen!”We were standing in the doorway, my parents ready to leave.“Our point exactly,” she...
"Tanner needed tutoring, but his mother needed it more."
I knocked on the door to Tanner’s house. We were supposed to meet up for a tutoring session. Tanner was a senior in one of my American history classes and I begrudgingly agreed to provide him some tutoring at his...
"The new teacher learns as much as she teaches."
Ms. Wey went by the name of Haeli, but I knew her as Nicole, at least that was the name she said she preferred. I first met Ms. Wey, I mean Nicole, when I was a senior at Westlake and...
"Studying for a test has never been so fun!"
It was Friday after noon and all he wanted was to get home after a long day of teaching. He was fresh out of college, only 26 years old, which tended to cause problems when you’re a male teacher, seeing...
"Daughter, who has had sex with her daddy, is away at school. Her friend does it with the daddy."
He saw her at the grocery store. She actually saw him too. He knew her. She knew him too. His daughter and her are really good friends but when she saw him in the store he wasn’t looking at her....