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ISSN: 1941-4137 |
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Volume Two Issue One |
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Absent For weeks afterwards, my pen would trip on her presence in the roll book, my head half-rise, involuntarily towards that empty desk. Others — dropped, transferred, expelled — were summarily excised with one bold stroke; yet she remained a momentary reminder each weekday morning. Until today, tallying grades at semester's end, I suddenly, impulsively gouged a horizontal line through her name, a mark harsh and definitive as burnt-black tire tracks cutting ruthlessly across a rain-slicked highway. |
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