“Who did this to you, little girl?” Silence. Leslie, who had been looking ahead, behind Carey’s back, lowered her head down. “I was the best student of my class when I was six”, Leslie started. “My teacher bragged about my skills all the time and my parents couldn’t be prouder of the girl they were… [Read more…]
May 13, 2012
It was nearly lunch time and Carey could no longer hide her worry. Leslie wasn’t in the room. At first, the teacher thought she could be somewhere inside the school perimeter, but Mr. Carlo (the janitor) denied it; unless she had the power of invisibility, the girl was nowhere to be found. Leslie had some… [Read more…]
March 17, 2012
Carey was relieved when the bell for the afternoon break rang. The children seemed to have all awaken with the greatest amount of energy ever and they were terrible and unfocused on their work. Carey was experiencing the terrible headache of a fifty year old teacher with more than twenty years on the job and… [Read more…]
March 5, 2012
Christmas holidays were everything but big; school time was back in a blink of an eye. Carey thought about going early to school so she could clean most of the classroom’s mess before the kids arrived so her alarm clock rang sooner than usual. Something Carey didn’t appreciate much in that cold day. To her… [Read more…]
February 28, 2012
Christmas was all over town and all over the house. The eve would take place at Leslie’s grandfather’s house, about fifty miles away, in just two days and Melinda was flying all over the house, trying to decorate each piece. Leslie looked at all this with an interest that no-one would catch up due to… [Read more…]
February 21, 2012
Christmas time was almost there. Carey had been trying to find a doctor to take Leslie’s IQ test but none of them seem to want to take it at school. The best chance would be to take the girl to the doctor’s office but the question was: did Leslie wanted her parent’s to know she… [Read more…]
February 10, 2012
Ring It was time for the morning recess. Carey had been secretly awaiting for it since classes began. After last night’s discovery on Leslie’s intelligence, Carey wanted to know how much did Leslie actually know. It wasn’t raining that day, so all students ran faster than usual and Leslie got ready to follow them to… [Read more…]
February 6, 2012
After four days wondering about those exercises, Leslie decided to try doing them. Her behaviour at school didn’t change in the mean time but she could notice Miss Carey’s eyes on her more often. She said it had been a good thing to see Leslie taking out her books now but the latter didn’t see… [Read more…]
February 3, 2012
Talking with Leslie’s parents didn’t seem to have made much difference. For another week, the girl would still be quiet all of the time and only moving when she had to. But one day, out of the blue and in the middle of an exercise, Leslie took her book and journal out of her schoolbag.… [Read more…]
January 31, 2012
Carey Winston was a twenty-five year-old teacher who got her graduation three years before. Unfortunately she didn’t have the chance to start working right after graduation but she took that time to take her psychology studies a bit deeper. She has had a semester with a class on children psychology but she believed a semester… [Read more…]
May 20, 2012
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