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Weekly Contest #343
When my student’s elbow knocks her pencil box off the desk, I don’t see the pens, pencils, crayons, markers, scissors, notecards, and gluestick tumbling across the floor and clattering on the linoleum. I see myself at the kitchen table when I was her age, reaching for a napkin and knocking a glass of milk over with my elbow. I hear the clunk of the glass against the wood, the initial splash that spread so quickly across the floor, the continuous drip of milk over the table’s edge and through the cracks in its wooden slats. I hear the scrape ...
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