Tag: school

• Fruit Punch and Rotten Eggs

  Each year, word of Miss Karen’s pool parties circled like buzzards at bus stops. It flowed through the halls of the elementary school like an unseen current humming through electrical wires. Third graders told incoming second graders who were lucky enough to have been assigned Miss Karen’s class about the end-of-the-year bash in hushed tones…

  Dan Metzger

  August 29, 2015

  Fiction, Short Story

  elementary school, fun, happy, magazines, pool, pool party, punch, school, summer, swimming, teacher, teaching

• Texting Harriet Greer

  Jordan Gregg moved in about a month before the end of the school year. Mom found the timing of The Gregg’s move the sort of odd that borders on downright scandalous, what with enrolling two kids at Glenville just weeks before summer break. I’d been at camp for half the summer and up at my…

  Dan Metzger

  August 28, 2015

  Fiction, Short Story

  adolescence, boy, bus, bus stop, class, creative writing, Fiction, game, girl, high school, phone, school, school bus, small town, smart phone, summer, teenager, texting