Log In
Or create an account ->
Imperial Library
Home
About
News
Upload
Forum
Help
Login/SignUp
Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Epigraph
A Note to the Reader
Preface
1 Had it only been a year?
2 My interview at Langdon had been terrifying. All I had…
3 I spent most of July tiptoeing around Bridgette. I had…
4 My first day of school, at last. Langdon’s entry hall…
5 To a new teacher, entering into what is to be…
6 They put that kind of stuff in files?” Bridgette put…
7 Langdon Hall on the first day of school was as…
8 Resolve was one thing; momentum was another. After my first…
9 It was Sunday afternoon and I had spent the last…
10 My furniture arrived the same day my cell phone was…
11 My desk was covered with envelopes. Gilded envelopes. Colorplay envelopes.
12 I was dreading my lunch with Benjamin’s mother. She hadn’t…
13 That night I found myself staring resentfully at my sourcebook…
14 Thus began my teaching honeymoon. In the evenings I crafted…
15 I was doing my best to get used to Langdon—the…
16 Monday morning I sauntered into Langdon wearing an aqua terry-cloth…
17 Once I started tutoring it was like they could smell…
18 The crisp November air was a welcome change, and I…
19 I know I should have probably saved my first week…
20 You’re making how much an hour?”
21 I dragged myself to school Monday morning more hungover than…
22 Conchita looked nervous.
23 What do you mean you aren’t coming home for winter…
24 I returned to Langdon exhausted, my twelve days of Christmas…
25 Bridgette promised to meet me in the lobby of my…
26 My e-mail exchange with Francine Gilmore played out like a…
27 I had to get to the Braxtons in under fifteen…
28 What a day. I don’t know whether it was the…
29 My class was seated and eerily silent when I walked…
30 So this was rock bottom.
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
← Prev
Back
Next →
← Prev
Back
Next →