I wrote the character a little older, perhaps because I teach high school, and all I hear about are scholarships and who’s going to what top university.

Nice, I like the more thoughtful, serious tone of this one. This could make for a very different branching of the story possibility.
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i’m getting a softball scholarship for college – most likely tennesse [?] or arizona. and yes, softball truely is better than baseball. in oh so many ways.

I remember playing softball in high school… Ah, memories!
Congrats on the scholarship!

You sound like a really cool teacher, Baroness of Awesomeness. And some of the descriptions here read like they could have come from first hand experience—maybe a fellow teacher you know. Good contribution, I like your stories.

Thanks, Tad. The teacher in this ficlet is actually based (not so loosely, either) on a co-worker of mine, so you were right.