I was going through my paper mail this morning, and I found a letter from the school district where I used to do time as a kid. Apparently the high school English department head found out that I've written a couple of novels, and wants to make my first one required summer reading.

I'm horrified by this. I don't want a captive audience, and I don't want people to grow up despising my work because it was shoved down their throats at school. Save that shit for when I'm dead and buried, please.

@starbreaker whatever works for you, pal....I can see validity in all the comments, but obvs, totally up to you....

@MissSnarkerson It's OK. I just got off the phone with the head of the English department, and the superintendent had shot down her proposal after reading a bit and seeing this line:

"The slight smile on her lips and the mischief sparkling in her eyes suggested to Saul that Elisabeth Bathory wasn't the sort of woman a man brought home to meet his mother. She was the sort of woman a man begged for a collar."