story 7 of 11, Guy returns to fourth grade
fiction
edward w pritchard
It's difficult for a 27 year old graduate student to return to the fourth grade. It's a technicality, a bureaucratic nightmare. Still it is happening. I can't get my PHD in economics from Yale until I spend one month in fourth grade. My State requires a minimum attendance to finish grade school and what with Father's international travel back when I was ten my absenteeism has caught up to me.
Being the biggest kid in the school is one thing. Failing arithmetic because you are fantasizing about the Teacher Miss Ford is something else. Miss Ford has long red hair and a ...
to be continued
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