As Simple as Snow by Gregory Galloway

Author:Gregory Galloway
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
Published: 2011-03-27T13:39:59.275000+00:00

After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1992, he spent two years traveling and studying in Europe, before returning to the United States, where he began his teaching career in 1996.

Mr. Devon was forced to leave the teaching profession after a series of scandals in his classroom and the athletic department became too troublesome for the school board. He had spent a few months traveling before returning to town and beginning his residence with Ms. Chapman on Eddowes Street.

“That’s a little mean-spirited, isn’t it?”

“Not all of it,” she said, and took it away from me. “I’m not changing it. They’re all finished.”

I didn’t know what to say. I looked at the stack of notebooks. “How many are there now?”

“One thousand five hundred and sixteen,” she said. “That’s everybody in town, including everybody in school, even the bus riders, and everybody who works in town but doesn’t live here.”

“So what now?”

“I don’t know. I got it all finished a lot faster than I thought I would. It took me a long time last time, but there were more people, and I didn’t have anybody like you to help.”

“You did this before? What happened the last time you did this?”

“Everybody started dying, exactly the way I had described.”

Her eyes were black and still. I couldn’t tell if she was joking or not. I didn’t know whether she wanted me to laugh or not, so I just sat there with her notebook in my lap. I handed it back to her and she started laughing.

“I didn’t make them die,” she said. “People die, that’s what happens. And when they do, you need an obituary.”

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