Mrs Daniels does the wrong thing by Maria Thomas
Longview Academy Accident Book
| STUDENT NAME | Peter Williams | CLASS | 7B |
| DETAILS OF ACCIDENT | Bruising to left arm. Student clearly sore, moving with difficulty. Student says he fell in the playground. | ||
| REPORTED BY | Mrs Daniels | DATE | 10th September |
| STUDENT NAME | Peter Williams | CLASS | 7B |
| DETAILS OF ACCIDENT | Student has livid red marks encircling both arms. Student in pain and reluctant to explain what happened. Marks seem to be compression burns. | ||
| REPORTED BY | Mrs Daniels | DATE | 25th September |
| STUDENT NAME | Peter Williams | CLASS | 7B |
| DETAILS OF ACCIDENT | Student limping. On inspection ankle is badly bruised, swollen, looks like an overripe plum, smells like rotting poultry. Student refused treatment, refused bandage, refused care. Claims tripped playing football. | ||
| REPORTED BY | Mrs Daniels | DATE | 8th October |
| STUDENT NAME | Peter Williams | CLASS | 7B |
| DETAILS OF ACCIDENT | Student in considerable pain, wincing when he reaches or twists. On inspection torso is covered in bruises the size and shape of a mint of coins. Bruises are various colours, lemon through chartreuse, scarlet, indigo, claret, obsidian; suggests infliction over long period. Student explained that he’s accident-prone, often walking into doors.
Student is very thin, appears malnourished. |
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| REPORTED BY | Mrs Daniels | DATE | 9th October |
| STUDENT NAME | Peter Williams | CLASS | 7B |
| DETAILS OF ACCIDENT | Student showed teacher his back today. Covered in small circular scars, almost tribal in appearance. One of those African tribes you see on the BBC with the ritual markings on their face. On closer inspection scars look like burns, as if student has been forced to remain in position while being tortured. When questioned who had done this to him, student shrugged. Student appears resigned and is clearly not receiving sufficient nourishment. Eyes appear dilated and shrunken within his face, rimed with dark circles. Cadaverous. Does anyone review this book? | ||
| REPORTED BY | Mrs Daniels | DATE | 20th October |
| STUDENT NAME | Peter Williams | CLASS | 7B |
| DETAILS OF ACCIDENT | Student arrived at class with a scarf wrapped round his neck. Eyes vermillion around dark irises, darker pupils. Singularities. When asked to remove scarf teacher could see crimson contusions orbiting student’s neck, the imprint of digits where someone had squeezed tight, tighter, tightest. Suspect student is not accident-prone, suspect this is part of a pattern, suspect fractals on fractals on fractals. Teacher is concerned. Teacher is powerless. Teacher is writing into a void. In space no-one can hear you scream – right? | ||
| REPORTED BY | Mrs Daniels | DATE | 5th November |
Longview Academy Absence Book
| STUDENT NAME | Peter Williams | CLASS | 7B |
| DETAILS OF ABSENCE | Student absent from class. No call from parent. Teacher intends to find student address and call round after school. Teacher has rape alarm, mace, mobile. | ||
| REPORTED BY | Mrs Daniels | DATE | 15th November |
Maria Thomas is a middle-aged, apple-shaped mum of two. She has work in EllipsisZine, Funny Pearls, Levatio, Fiery Scribe Review, Paragraph Planet, VirtualZine, Free Flash Fiction, Punk Noir, Roi Faineant Press, Cape Magazine and (upcoming) Punk Monk. Maria won Retreat West’s April 2022 Micro competition. She can be found on Twitter as @AppleWriter.
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This is superb and so very sad.