M Wolf

…ooked a little afraid. I am not ashamed to admit that it felt good, to make a man afraid of me.

Maybe, I thought, the best spell of protection was me.

…incipal’s office waiting to hear my fate, the biggest meanest bully in the school was there too, and he looked at me with deep respect when I told him what I was in for. He even looked a little afraid. I am not ashamed to admit that it felt good, to make a man afraid of me.

Maybe, I thought, the…

…at worked was me, hitting the boy over the head with a hard instrument case, knocking him out cold. I ended up in the principal’s office, was suspended for a day — and the boy never, ever hit me or touched me or talked to me or even looked at me again. The only thing that ended my trouble was making trouble.

While I was in the principal’s office …