The Curse Of Abundance: A Short Scary Story

By Stories From The Attic

I was going to say that it all started with a toothache, but that’s not quite right. It really started the day before, with a decision. A stupid decision made with the sort of offhand nonchalance with which people like me make decisions about places like theirs. It was a bad decision, one that I regret to this day and one that I probably always will.

On the other hand, the decision to go to Greece in the first place had been a good one. Though of course that decision wasn’t really mine.

It had been the run up to exam season and as the teacher with the highest number of exam classes in the school (and as a consequence the teacher with the highest number of mock examination papers to mark) by the time the half term break came around I was absolutely exhausted. For what seemed like months I was either in the classroom teaching, planning the lessons I would be teaching the following day, or marking examination papers from one of the four exam classes, all of which had multiple papers for me to...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Jan 25, 2021

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Stories From The Attic

The Curse Of Abundance

A Short Scary Story

The Curse of Abundance

By Storie From The Attic

The Curse of Abundance

I was going to say that it all started with a toothache, but that’s not quite right. It really started the day before, with a decision. A stupid decision made with the sort of offhand nonchalance with which people like me make decisions about places like theirs. It was a bad decision, one that I regret to this day and one that I probably always will.

On the other hand, the decision to go to Greece in the first place had been a good one. Though of course that decision wasn’t really mine.

It had been the run up to exam season and as the teacher with the highest number of exam classes in the school (and as a consequence the teacher with the highest number of mock examination papers to mark) by the time the half term break came around I was absolutely exhausted. For what seemed like months I was either in the classroom teaching, planning the lessons I would be teaching the following day, or marking examination papers from one of the four exam classes, all of which had multiple papers for me to plough through.

I lost count of the times that I had woken up, a stone cold cup of ridiculously strong coffee beside me, slumped in the early hours of the morning over one badly constructed essay or another having fallen asleep at my desk at home. Usually, the only thing that stopped me from sleeping right through the night in this position was Bella, my trusty golden retriever who had herself become restless since her usual long walks on the moors by my home, had been severely curtailed and shortened by my ridiculous workload.

Partly to blame for this push paper mountain was Helen, my Faculty Head