a short story

Last week, when I handed out the vocabulary words to my class, I told them that they had to write a story for homework using the new vocabulary words. I just wanted to share one of the stories with you. This was written by one of my best students, and I have not edited it at all except for omitting the last name of one of my students that was written in the story. For the record, Jeff and Steven are two other students in the class.

"When I and Ms. Stephanie was chatting in my house, suddenly the TV informed that Ms. Stephanie is a murderer. We were so astonished. Th TV said that Jeff told them that Ms. Stephanie killed Steven violently. The police didn'tk now that Jeff is very evil man. So they trusted him. The TV also said that the police have already started investigating. In the interview, Jeff said that he is confident that Ms. Stephanie is a murderer. I told Ms. Stephanie to hide in the cavity because she wasn't a murderer.

On the second day, I started to find a clue that can prove that Jeff is a murderer. I searched for ten minutes, but I couldn't find a clue. So, I went back to my house. When I looked at mailbox, I found a paper and a picture. It says: "If you see this woman, call the police. Reward is one million RMB." It was such a disturbance. I anticipated that the police will find the cavity. So, I went to Dohyeon's house, and confided the secret and asked for assistance. But, he didn't memorize me. That baffled me. I told Ms. Stephanie to surrender and she went to the police station. But, I sweared her to catch Jeff. Maybe I can catch him in the next story."

and then, a few lines down on the page:

"Extra funny story (do you know this story?)
Once upon a time, there was a boy who ate a fire. He died."

I found out that this student had also made a reward poster to go along with the story. In fact, one of my history students came up to my office to tell me that he had seen a Wanted poster with a picture of me on it. So in class I asked to see it...and it wasn't drawn, like I had expected. No, he had made a wanted poster on his computer with my name and a real picture of me (which he had taken during a scavenger hunt a few weeks ago) on it. And...sadly...he had blacked out my eyes. I didn't even know what to do so I made him promise never to make something like that again and to throw it away. I didn't really get it. He's not the kind of kid that I expected to black out my eyes in a picture. Sometimes I can't believe the kind of shit I have to deal with.

3 other kids in the class also wrote about me murdering some students. This is my favorite class-- I can't even imagine what my history students would write about me doing if I made them write a story.