unholy tilapia

a short story about the perils of people pleasing, first-day nerves, and the hazards of leftover fish

Patricia was nervous for her first day at the new job, as nervous as she was for any new job she ever had, anyway, and she’d had a lot of them once she discovered that teaching meant dealing with living breathing human teenagers and pleasing their unpleasable parents, which meant her teaching degree was useless and she had to decide what else she could …