Flash Fiction

#sublife

She’s back in middle school at 48 years old. No, not as a student but as something much grittier, a player that requires both flexibility and unflappability. Not as a teacher, administrator or any type of staff — but as a substitute teacher. A sub; that unglamourous position of a stand-in, a chair-warmer, roster-reader, name-bungler.

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