The Assignment Had Me Worried
- elements of forbidden sex and lurid mutilations
- no idea how much blood
- full of glassy accusation
- sometimes I get overzealous
- never written a vampire story before
The assignment had me worried about my GPA. I had never written a vampire story before, so I had no idea how much blood there really was supposed to be, or how blatantly to handle the elements of forbidden sex and lurid mutilations. But when I asked Professor Kerensky for some guidance, he glared at me and said, “These are the very things you are to learn by doing this assignment,” his voice full of diesel fuel and his eyes full of glassy accusation. So I kicked him in the shin. When it comes to my GPA, sometimes I get overzealous.
Did you end up writing the story, or did Kerensky have you expelled?
Both. Turns out lurid mutilations need to be kept to a minimum when they’re happening to someone with your professor’s name.
You scamp.