In fourth grade, this boy had a substitute teacher who asked them to write a 3-page story. His friend, Chris, hated writing, ...

If the take-home reading packet is still in the backpack in a hall closet right about now, there’s no time to waste.

The trauma plot flattens, distorts, reduces character to symptom, and, in turn, instructs and insists upon its moral authority. The solace of its simplicity comes at no little cost.