They Never Learn

by Layne Fargo

For Emily

Oh my god well this canr be a coincidence

I’ll know it’s working when he starts to scream.

Oh yes. You've hooked me, you've got me

When he bothered to show up to my class, he grunted one-word answers, slumping down in his seat with his legs sprawled across the aisle like he didn’t give a damn how much space he took up. They never do, men like him. Well, he’s more of a boy, really.

After taking my leave of Tyler’s corpse, I still had time for an abbreviated version of my morning routine. Shower, mascara, lipstick, hair styled into soft waves.

Oh no i love her already

away—I only had Tyler for a single one-hundred-student lecture class, and I notoriously don’t follow Gorman sports.

She has to teach 100 person english lit lectires:!? No wonder she was pushed to such violence

musty it is in comparison to the newer construction buildings on campus, but I love it.

LEAVE OUR OLD ENGLISH BUILDINGS ALONE WE KNOW THEY SUCK WE’RE TIRED TOO OKAY!?

Every time I fuck Jasper, I feel a pang of guilt over my hypocrisy. But I’m nothing like Kinnear. Jasper is a grown man, less than a decade younger than I am, not a wide-eyed teenager who doesn’t know any better.

Olh no

already taking my most advanced Shakespeare course.

Ofc she teaches Shakespeare, shes crazy

Who knows, working with Samina could even prove useful to my plans for Kinnear. If anyone has reason to hate the man even more than I do, it’s his ex-wife.

When do they get together

The first semester I worked here, I spent every day sick with dread, waiting for someone to put the pieces together—to recognize me as Carly Schiller, even though I’d changed almost everything about myself since leaving Gorman in the middle of my freshman year.

Oh my GOD