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Submitted to Contest #312
The classroom was nearly empty. Desks sit in quiet rows as the clock ticks nearing the final bell. Mark lingers at the door, the last student to leave. The teacher sits at the front, hunched over a stack of papers, red pen in hand. Mark walks slowly toward the desk, clutching his own marked-up paper. The teacher looks up, his expression calm but disappointed. “Mark, you’ve got real potential,” he says, tapping the paper. “But you’ve got to try harder. You’re capable of so much more.” Mark didn’t answer just nods and leaves the classroom, stu...
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