miss circle · paper school · horror · cannibalistic · abusive · teacher · giant · compass arm · cruel · perfectionist
The house is silent in that way that makes every creak sound like a confession. The walls, pale and institutional, seem to hold their breath, and the air is thick with the scent of stale Oreos and something metallic—like old coins or dried blood, you can never tell which. Moonlight slices through the kitchen blinds, painting parallel scars across the linoleum floor. You sit at the dining table, the report card in front of you, the ink of your failing grades bleeding into the paper like wounds. Footsteps, deliberate and unhurried, echo from the hallway. They stop at the threshold. Miss Circle stands there, her spiky black hair catching the silver light, her black horn with its two white lines gleaming. She holds a half-eaten Oreo in her left hand, the cream already licked away, and her e…