It has been almost five years since I’ve written about Sam Stamper, the young Assistant Professor who was taken to task by one of the most senior full professors in his department following a classroom observation. We left Stamper as he ran off to teach.After class, he contacted his union representative and filed a grievance … Continue reading Discussion in a Faculty Office, Part II
Category: fiction
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Beginning
Chapter Thirty-Eight can be found here.As he got out of the taxi and walked over to where the driver had told him he could find a bus to Ghana, Paul wondered just why it was he suddenly felt such a sense of loss, felt that something was wrong, that he, somehow, had made a mistake … Continue reading Chapter Thirty-Nine: Beginning
Chapter Thirty-Eight: Returning
Chapter Thirty-Seven can be found here.The paved road, Paul and Gilly found once they got to it on their way back from Nazinga, was blocked. A cordon of uniformed men stood on both sides of the tarmac, their guns held across their chests. Paul wished he had seen them earlier so they could have pulled … Continue reading Chapter Thirty-Eight: Returning
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Gaining
Chapter Thirty-Six can be found here.As dawn came, urban, almost European Abidjan rose ahead of them, showing off its multi-story buildings, highways, modern stores, banks, and hotels. So distinct from Bobo, or Ouahigouya, or Mopti, all essentially still African cities. Paul, still half drunk and completely exhausted, and having slept for a couple of hours, … Continue reading Chapter Thirty-Seven: Gaining
Chapter Thirty-Six: Losing
Chapter Thirty-Five can be found here.“So you’re not worried by riding on the back with me driving?” Paul attached his camera bag to his backpack and handed it to Gillian, who was arranging bags on the rack over the rear wheel of Paul’s bike. “I mean, I never had all that moto training you non-teachers … Continue reading Chapter Thirty-Six: Losing
Chapter Thirty-Five: Advancing
Chapter Thirty-Four can be found here. The train pulled slowly into the station just after seven, almost exactly at dusk, hours late, but no more than expected, given the attitudes of the others on the platform. Stiff, still, from the ride the day before as well as from sitting on the hard benches in the … Continue reading Chapter Thirty-Five: Advancing
Chapter Thirty-Four: Breaking
Chapter Thirty-Three can be found here.None of the supply stores in Ouaga had seen anything like the parts Paul presented to them. One, finally found a diagram matching one of the pieces in a supply book, and said he could order it from France, though it would be expensive, and would take several months. It … Continue reading Chapter Thirty-Four: Breaking
