Matriculation
For the A-to-Z Blogging Challenge this year, I’m posting a 100 word piece of flash fiction every day. It might be a self-contained story, or a scene–whatever, it’ll be fiction, and it’ll be over in a flash! Today’s story is…
Matriculation
Tarren watched as Dr. Schultz pulled up his data sheet.
“Straight A’s,” Schultz said, his dark eyebrows frowning.
“I tried,” Tarren said, his nerves choking the words from his mouth.
“Clearly.” Schultz rolled his eyes.
“Ah, some trouble with computers?”
“Yes,” Tarren barely said.
“Altered the grades…?”
Tarren blushed.
“Coded a virus that took down the entire network a year later?”
“I can explain…”
Schultz held up a hand.
“Then hacked into the FBI and nearly started war with Iran?”
“I—I—You see…”
But Schultz was smiling.
“I think you’ll do well here, Mr. Kaine. Welcome to Villain University.”
Check back tomorrow for N…
Haha… liked this.
Thanks, Stephanie. 🙂
That last line was a great twist. We have stories about hero schools, let’s get one about a villain school. That would be more fun I bet.
~Patricia Lynne~
Story Dam
Patricia Lynne, YA Author
Thank you, Patricia. This is a bit of a spin on a novel idea I have, so it was good to try out. 🙂
Good one! I like Patricia’s idea of hearing more about “villain schools.” How would students be punished? They’d have to do something good? 🙂
Madeline @ The Shellshank Redemption
Minion, Capt. Alex’s Ninja Minion Army
The 2014 Blogging from A-Z Challenge
Thanks, Madeline! Mmmm… perhaps they would have to be nice to people for a day. Make dinner for their arch nemesis without poisoning them… 🙂
It’s an excellent short story. I enjoyed reading it.
ありがとうございます ロミさん
OK, I confess: my daughter (who loves all things Asian and is learning Japanese) helped me with that. 🙂
どういたしまして。娘さんによろしく。
(My pleasure. Say hello to your daughter.) 🙂
Interesting, very interesting!
Thanks, Kim. 🙂