title: Fundamentally Finn: Finn's all right; the world's all wrong.
author: Mr. Charlie Wilcox
description: Charlie Wilcox's teaching experiences in grades 1-12 started two weeks after he went to Woodstock in '69 and continue to this day a an adjunct professor of English at Manchester Community College in Connecticut. He is still engaging and zealous about education and strives to work wonders with his classes. Charlie has written the young adult novel he always wanted to teach as well as two adult novels-"The Love Not Taken" and "A Twist of Kate." He embraces music for inspiration and remains as he started: young at heart.
zlib_text: Karsyn’s Short
  Alice Winters
   
  *Please don’t share outside the reader group!
   
   
  Karsyn
  The moment I see Finn’s beaming face I quickly try to turn around.
  “Don’t run!” he yells after me.
  Work used to be so boring. So normal. I just came, did my work,
  snipped at anyone who needed to be snipped at and went home.
  But then a human arrived and ruined everything. Why they thought
  adding a human to the mix would be the answer, I’ll never know. Why he
  became the answer to getting everyone to work together, I also don’t know.
  I will never tell him that, though.
  “Alexei!” Finn says as he hurries after me.
  Suddenly, I get nailed in the back of the head with something hard
  and snatch it from the air as it falls before seeing that it’s an eraser. It looks
  a lot like the eraser I chucked at Marcus when my brain decided to stop
  working.
  “When Finn asks for something, you do it,” Marcus growls, clearly
  the thrower of the eraser.
  Slowly, I turn to Finn. “Ah, I didn’t notice you there,” I lie to the
  hum