Prompt: Green dancing octopus with a PhD in English Lit.
Chartreuse glanced across her master’s classroom at Penn State with ill-disguised disdain. So far this year’s English Lit. class was filled with students who appeared to have no more brains than a prepubescent eel. Professor Lang was going to need her help if he was going to be able to teach them anything at all this semester. She extended her succulent tentacles to the top of her tank lifting the lid with a swift twist, and tossing it aside with a resounding peal as the hard plastic crashed to the floor. She watched with glee as the students gasped in alarm and she undulated in the brilliant shades of yellow and green that she was named for. Quivering in anticipation, she curled her tentacles back and forth across the glass so swiftly it appeared to the untrained eye as though she were dancing.
Professor Lang glanced at her with a smug smile, knowing what was about to happen. He turned his back to the class scribbling on the whiteboard as Chartreuse pulled water into her siphon and spewed it across the front row. His class erupted in cries of astonishment from the unlucky ones who had gotten sprayed and raucous laughter from the lucky ones who wouldn’t reek of fish all day.
“Pardon me, I seem to have forgotten to introduce my Teaching Assistant Chartreuse. She has studied English Lit. in this room for so long that if she were human, she would have a doctorate herself. Her opinion of your skills doesn’t appear very high.” He stated bluntly with a hint of sardonic inflection to his baritone timbre as he finished writing her name directly under his own credentials on the board.
“I would strive to change that or plan to fight over the limited seating at the back of the room for the rest of our time together.”
Please be kind. How did I do?
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