Her essay was on Christopher Columbus, and that choice itself wasn’t so Fax Lists exciting, but she had written her report in the first-person, present-tense! (“My name is Christopher Columbus, the captain of the Santa Maria. The date is October 11, 1492...”) Miss Demanjiew almost blew out her pantyhose when Fax Lists she shit herself, over that report. Most of the kids in the class had simply copied two pages of the classroom Junior Fax Lists Encyclopaedia Britannica for their essay, but Lila had turned in original work. If Lila’s report didn’t deserve the very first A++ Miss Demanjiew had ever handed out, nothing did. To hear Miss Demanjiew tell the tale.
Lila Galarneau practically deserved the Pulitzer Prize. While Fax Lists every other kid had written their biography in the third-person, past-tense, Lila had created something fresh. For Fax Lists her part, Lila actually looked confused, what all the Hubba Bubba was about. I was smart enough to move around the paragraphs and shuffle the sentences when copying out my essay on Julius Caesar (I mean, nobody expected a bunch of ten-year- Fax Lists from Northwestern Ontario to hand in primary-source material, original research on the birth of the Roman Empire) but what Lila had done was shatter expectations, presenting her two-page paper like a document salvaged from the personal archives of King.
Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Immediately after we got our grades, Miss Fax Lists Demanjiew gave our class basically the same assignment all over again, but this time, we were allowed to write Fax Lists about famous fictional people as well (no cartoon characters! And no Star Wars villains, either! Other than that, go crazy.) I was tempted to write about Mr. Spock, but for some reason, I choose Marco Polo, can’t tell you why. I didn’t Fax Lists own any books on Marco Polo; hadn’t even seen him o.