The Best (Short) Piece of Fiction You Will Read This Week

The plot: A lonely High School AP English teacher is proposed to by one of his students.

It is worth your 20 minutes: Read it.

Sidenote: This was written by a guy who was himself a HS English teacher. After its publication, he was given a tw0-book deal, became a full-time writer, and this piece, The Smoker, was bought out to make into a movie, which will come out next year with Natalie Portman as the bold student.

It is all about quality, not quantity, now aint it?

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