Adequate Yearly Progress

by Roxanna Elden

She

first interruption.

all!” Hernan tried to think of something

you a hint.”

There’s real research and statistics about

developed yet?”

he’d worked for seven.

performing next Friday. The PA clicked off, and Lena restarted the poem. She always

avoided theater classes altogether; it was time to write her own lines for a

rhythmic

partners

coworker.

experiments were like this. Everything

“Nilda, why don’t you tell us what your hypothesis was?”

was still time. He watered the plants

an Olympic torch.

suggested

laugh if

they sounded like the type of names

table. This meant the exit tickets still loomed over her weekend. But it was more than that. She’d expected the teachers

organizing data.

hours. “I’m always here until this time.

renew his hope that this might be a date. It soon became clear that Lena

just

code: Most of the guys in the club were

whispered. “Wish me luck!”

pride.” The red light highlighted her eyelids

noticeably more female now. The guys

somehow. “The mechanism by which/ we

from yet.” Lena looked around the room.

Character who never changes? No story.”

anywhere.”

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me! “Me, too,” Hernan whispered,

thousands who would soon be watching the

for example, in which Jamal helped

and

where

her

fire. But she hadn’t counted on Aunt

placed a placating hand on her husband’s

sister defensiveness. Geoff was too focused on the tequila bottles and Jesus’s attention to be fazed. “So, we getting started on some shots

and sometimes looked at Kaytee with

chorus of eye-rolls and lackluster, one-handed roof raises, punctuated

Amantha-am-I-pronouncing-that-right

examples right now.” Most of the teachers were

women. “Right,” said Breyonna, “driving

some essential quality that would have