Miss North was marking. I stood by her desk, quaking. It had been weeks since she had written ‘Please See Me’ by my poem, ‘The Goat’. Whatever I had done wrong, I didn’t know, but she was about to tell me, and as her red pen set comments against the last-minute work of one of my classmates (them hovering beside her), and I w…
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