School Days

My daughter might have been a soft core porn author. She might be yet, the jury is still out pondering her career fate. Anyway, a few years ago, when she was in high school, an English teacher remarked that she thought YL would make an excellent soft core porn author. Not just a writer, mind you, a very specific niche. I've never seen any of the stories that elicited this opinion. I asked to see them, but the teacher graded them and returned them to the author. The author promptly discarded them. Hmm...Curious.

Authoring soft core porn might be a step up, I suppose. Further back when in JR high, her writings were forwarded to the social worker, who promptly called me in for a conference. The teacher and SW were concerned that she might be plotting some *action* against classmates or more. They relayed that therapists could be summoned, interventions arranged. Whoa! I offered reassurance that the stories were fiction. She has an active imagination. She has a brother who preceded her and she tries to *outdo* him. She's just, you understand, testing boundaries. Finally, I threw in; "YL doesn't have the organizational skills to plan her lunch, let alone a coup." Ms. SW, noted, "why, yes, of course Ms. t o d, that is documented here in her *file*, but, still, you understand, we must keep an eye on the situation."

Yes, of course, they must.

Now back to this soft core porn business, those were just *fiction* too. Right?