Always, Mazie was determined to win a scholarship. It came down to her and a kid in a wheelchair.

Gran said, ‘Times a woman got to throw a fight for her soul’s ease.’

Mazie sulked by left blanks in her exam.

The kid won then died in a hit & run.

Gran?

In the note for ditching Teacher Burt’s Baffle-the-Plebs-with-Syllables class, Mazie wrote, ‘Sir, I used a commode far too incommodious for my output and initiated a plumber’s visit that has incommoded the entire dorm. Therefore, we shall be absent.’