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Summer 2018 Story 1

Page history last edited by Emma Moghabghab 5 years, 8 months ago

     Once there was a student-teacher named Maria. Maria was a diligent young woman who had an excellent GPA and cared more about her academic success than anything else in the world. One semester, she experienced difficulty. She was struggling with a course: TESOL Methods. The teacher didn't explain expectations and tasks very well, and he didn't care to make instructions explicit. He was old and tired and no longer cared about students' inquiries or progress.  Maria was frustrated. She wanted so badly to succeed and be the student-teacher of the year. Maria tried to get help from the instructor, Dr. Shoemaker, but he brushed her off like a bad date. Hopeless, Maria ran out of the room only to bump into another student, Johnny, who was just as distraught. The two decided to go out for milkshake to talk about the predicament.

 

     Little did she know, Johnny was an intrepid predator who kept young, naive student-teachers in his basement. He had placed a suspicious powder in her milkshake, and the two of them chatted breezily about Dr. Shoemaker, the class, and their dreams. Maria was getting sleepy. Lucky for her, Gladys, their waitress, was an undercover police officer who had been surveilling Johnny for months waiting to take him down. She waited for the right moment, and just as Johnny was taking his slumbering date to the door, Gladys pulled out her taser and incapacitated him. Maria was safe. She became Student Teacher of the Year, and for her efforts, Gladys was promoted to Chief of Police.

 

     Everyone thought that IUP was safe then because of Gladys being on the watch, but over the next several weeks, six students were found dead in various "random" places on campus. Beyond the sheer horror of serial murder, the staging of the bodies caused widespread panic and fear among all students on campus. Each dead body appeared to be set up to epitomize the representation of a deadly sin and accounted for six of the seven sins. The first body was found six weeks ago dangling from the goal post on the Crimson Hawks football field crows picking at sun dried rotting flesh. Sam was the star quarter-back and captain of the football team. He head the Phi Kappa Neu fraternity and was well-respected by all students and faculty alike, except maybe girls. He played them like they didn't matter with a  sense of pride and entitlement. Every other body was staged to match another sin. 

 

Expecting a seventh murder, the campus was on high alert for the rest of semester but the seventh murder never came. The profilers must have been wrong and the deaths were not connected to the sins. I guess we'll never know, better keep an eye out for the seventh number of anything after that.   

 

 

 

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