Literature
Real Life Fantasy Saga: Part 1
Real Life Fantasy Saga
Part I: Birth of a Hero
At half past eleven on a warm and sunny spring afternoon, the fourth grade class occupying room 217 of Levi Parsons Morton Elementary School seemed as devoid of life as the farthest reaches of the Greenland ice sheet. Though the class was made up of roughly two dozen children, many of whom would generally use their time in other classes to engage in various forms of gossip, games, goofiness, and other goings-on, the teacher they were held in thrall to on this occasion seemed possessed of the ability to enervate even the most spirited youngster. Leaning over a large, mahogany desk which occupie