“What’s the word, Bird?” Ilene asked as she returned to her desk without even glancing up at Vinny, who cawed as he slowly spread his arms and stretched his neck before tucking back into his vulture pose on the file cabinet behind her.
“The word I heard was quite absurd.”
“Do tell,” and Ilene spun her office chair around to look up at the gangly youth who used to be notorious for getting sent to the office daily but now appeared randomly and of his own volition to visit with her.
“Ah, Ms. Higginbottom, you know how it is, my living legend status means I’m still a target. That fossil they have teaching geography can’t stand that I got out of her class, still hunts me down in the halls, can’t wait for me to mess up; guess she needs someone like me to be correcting and disciplining, makes her feel all righteous.”
“She probably thinks she’s doing it for your own good, Vinny, she’s a bit of a legend too, in her own mind.”
Here is a second entry for Six Sentence Stories, brought to us by Denise of GirlieOnTheEdge. The prompt word is “legend”. This is Ilene Higginbottom who first met this young man at her job interview HERE, and who helped him out in her role as school administrative assistant HERE. You can get to know Ilene and her friends HERE.
Once you’re marked with that bull’s eye, there’s no getting rid of it, lol
There are teachers who love to pick on students labeled as “n’er do wells” whether it’s deserved or not. Luckily, Vinny seems to take it in stride.
Great double header SSS!
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This may be somewhat undeveloped here on its own, but Ilene was threatening to kick me in the shins if I didn’t let her out for a bit, ready or not.
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Wheeee! Double duty! We’re lucky to get sent to this office. Sadly, such labeling costs a good kids education. Hope he gets past it soon.
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With Ilene Higginbottom as his advocate, you bet he will.
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A most entertaining six sentence story.
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Thanks.
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I hope Vinny is able to maintain his legend status long after the ‘fossil’ loses hers.
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Oh, he’ll be all right. There’s more to the story, probably shouldn’t have put these six sentences out but as I said above, Ilene was getting feisty and wanted some air.
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I’m sure we’ll get to hear more of Vinny.
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If you want to be a legend you have to believe you already are one . Good six
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For the shocker of the week, I can identify with Vinny, having been sent to the principle’s office more than anyone. other than my scottian classmate and friend, Alan Dean. (The principle in this parochial school was Sister Magellen. Which, even as I type, I marvel at the challenge to my ambitions to be a writer. Will I ever have the skill (or the daring) to make up a name like Sister Magellen?! lol Skill, in writing as in so many other arts, seems so much a function of confidence and conviction.)
Enjoyable Six.
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Thanks. Yep, even as he doesn’t get sent anymore, he still needs the walk-about– and some Ilene time.
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Vinny is a student i would want if i were a teacher. Excellent six!
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Aw, but Ms. Higginbottom is way more powerful than a teacher– she’s the school secretary, aka administrative assistant; she’s got his back, even if his teachers don’t..
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