Procrastination
This is yet another distraction. A sideways thought trailing off from my intended destination. It is past midnight. I won’t leave until this is done. The work…
A Learning Experience
He frantically scanned the room for a drawer, a cupboard, anything that could hide his apparatus-to-be. The inspector called again. “Oy! Don’t make us knock…
COLLEGE (Apologies to Mr. Dickens)
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of…
Delivery
Fog drifted, wet and heavy, over the short mall between the Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry and Stanley Coulter Hall. Six tall lampposts bathed everything in…
Harbinger and Herald
I watched dozens of hard-looking men unloading a long line of freight trucks. Every box was marked *On Loan From Arkham University, Handle With Care*. I didn’t…
A Link in Chaotic Events
Something nosed into my armpit. I tried to push it away but my body was sluggish in responding. Whatever it was gave an irritated snuffle and left me. I opened…
Drafts, Drifts, and Mishaps
The hours I spent in the bathroom after eating at the cafeteria, kept me from the rest of my classes including Chem lab. Missing one assignment there could…
A Freshman at Ecto-U
Today is the first day of school. From where I stand, in a garden classroom, I can see the main campus. A towering Victorian structure in such a severe state…
Heroes teach
A race walk supplants my typical stroll across the campus park for morning coffee. Despite having tenure, I am stuck with classes sprawled across campus…
First day of school
Billy Johnson was nervous, this was his first day of school. Well, not school but university. He’d gotten all the qualifications he needed to be here. He…
The Well at Jackville
There was feeling of dread that hung over the well like a storm cloud. Most people would sense it but couldn’t explain it - one of those weird sensations they…