Juxtaterrestrial

Chapter 1: Week 2 The clock ticked ever closer to the end of class. Having noticed her students’ waning attention, Professor Annie Keller sighed and finished her notes on the board. Ms. Keller had a style - dark clothes with pleasant-colored cardigans. Floral hues. Lilac. Apricot. And If not that then shades of blue or magenta. Her long socks often matched her chromatic outerwear, providing a stark contrast to the stout buckled black heels, shapely black blouse and skirt. She was by all accounts very professorly, and by most standards attractive. Her pretty face was accentuated by dark brown hair swept over one shoulder, deep blue eyes, and dark lipstick to match. But as was the case with any social group, there were those that disagreed. The other women under her tutelage just wouldn’t leave her alone. They joked that their Professor was thick. Their choice of words was almost kind. But the honest truth was that she was chubby, and not in ways that people talked about kindly. Did