The Teacher

A short story

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1.

It was still dark when Owen woke up. Sweat was clinging to his t-shirt. He peeled it off and threw it into the pile at the foot of the bed, rolled over and checked the alarm clock. 4:18. He’d slept less than three hours. Had there been a gunshot outside, or had the sound he thought he heard been only the explosion in his dream? No matter what he did, the dream always ended with the…