Fiction

Fiction is the class of literature compromising works of imaginative narration. A lot of short stories are based on fiction. Some people may like fiction, others may not (depending on the person). Personally, I happen to like fiction because it's not true, so an individual can be as creative as he or she wants. Fiction stories don't have to be about a specific topic, unless otherwise stated by your instructor.

Recently, we had just completed "Gryphon" by Baxter. This fictional short story is about a substitute teacher that basically no one accepts because she is a little "weird" or "different." She wears clothes that hardly match, and when the students ask her "Why aren't you in the teacher's lounge eating your lunch?" She goes on to say that she doesn't find that she fits in with the teachers and she would much rather be with the students.

As my group and I talked more in depth about this subject, we had come to the conclusion that maybe substitute teachers are given a title as being "weird" is because substitute teachers are maybe their for 1 to 2 days tops. They're not the face students are used to seeing on a day-to-day basis, and because no one will remember them, they are free to be as different as they would like.