Penitentia It was early evening in Danforth Putnam, and all was quiet outside Cabot House, one of the freshmen girl dorms. A hedge in its empty courtyard began to shudder and from it emitted the sound of gnashing. This was Bernard, feeding. He lifted his face to the moonlight which slid glossily across the sticky […]
Evan Sam went to the student jobs office and looked up Dale’s work service record. He’d spent a lot of time doing janitorial assignments but had also logged a fair amount of time landscaping. His supervisor during those occasions was a groundskeeper named Evan Stahl. With the shadows lengthening, Sam picked his way through the […]
Story Time Ms. Lee sat in a chair in the children’s section of the library. She had arranged third and fourth graders in a circle around her and was reading to them from a collection of nineteenth century children’s tales. “ ‘If you wet the bed again’,” Ms. Lee read in a cheery, singsong voice, […]
Et ne nos inducas in tentationem His sophomore year, Bernard went with a church group to oppose a gay rights march in D.C. He saw two men holding hands, screamed “this is what god thinks of you!” and hurled his bible at them. He missed so spectacularly that they were unaware he’d even thrown something. The […]