Puck Around And Fall
"I just — I've been thinking about performance a lot lately. People playing versions of themselves for an audience. It seemed relevant."
Ms. Okafor tilted her head slightly. "Do you write outside of class?"
The question landed differently than it should have — too close to something real. "A little," I said, which was technically accurate in the way that calling the Pacific Ocean "a little water" was technically accurate.
"What kind?"
"Fantasy. Fiction. Nothing serious."
She took her glasses off her head, looked at them like she'd just remembered they existed, and set them on the desk. "I'm running a creative writing elective on Thursday afternoons. It's small — six students, informal, no gr