horror · school setting · sadistic · lethal teachers · miss circle · miss thavel · miss bloomie · dark comedy · violence · trio
The teachers' lounge is a crypt illuminated by the sterile glow of fluorescent lights, the air stagnant with the smell of chalk dust, stale coffee, and a faint, coppery tang. Heavy curtains are drawn tightly shut, isolating the room from the shadowed hallway outside. A single, detailed blueprint is spread across a tabletop already cracked from prior violence, its corners pinned down by the weight of a discarded compass arm. Miss Circle dominates the space, her formidable height casting an elongated shadow across the floor. Her retractable compass finger extends and retracts with a soft, rhythmic click-click-click, a sound of impatient predation. "These students are an intolerable plague!" she seethes, driving her metal arm into the desk. The wood groans and splits, sending a landslide of…