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Night Music

Night Music Elizabeth Howard Appalachian Heritage, Volume 24, Number 2, Spring 1996, pp. 41-47 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1996.0004 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436058/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:28 GMT from JHU Libraries FICTION Elizabeth Howard Glad to be out of the traffic at last, Ava Wester turned on the Mozart tape. Thank heaven, it was Friday. The tension eased from her tired shoulders and aching right leg as she drove down Longbridge Pike, past the rolling hills, freshly plowed fields, and greening woodlands of East Tennessee. She'd had a difficult week at Devonshire High School, starting with disappointing test scores and a nasty conference with parents, who felt their son wouldn't be failing math if Ava were doing her job. Right after that, she'd heard about Becky Plummer, an outstanding student—pregnant. The father Cooter Foley, a dropout, riffraff, as rotten as the driftwood along Killdeer Creek, which ran beside the curvy road. And then, a student whispered: "Jace Netherton shot himself." Jace, popular, happy-go-lucky. No stories of heartache or disappointment. No evidence of depression. Just one of those senseless events no one can explain. At the only straight stretch on http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Night Music

Howard, Elizabeth Jane.
Appalachian Review , Volume 24 (2) – Jan 8, 2014
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Elizabeth Howard Appalachian Heritage, Volume 24, Number 2, Spring 1996, pp. 41-47 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1996.0004 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436058/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:28 GMT from JHU Libraries FICTION Elizabeth Howard Glad to be out of the traffic at last, Ava Wester turned on the Mozart tape. Thank heaven, it was Friday. The tension eased from her tired shoulders and aching right leg as she drove down Longbridge Pike, past the rolling hills, freshly plowed fields, and greening woodlands of East Tennessee. She'd had a difficult week at Devonshire High School, starting with disappointing test scores and a nasty conference with parents, who felt their son wouldn't be failing math if Ava were doing her job. Right after that, she'd heard about Becky Plummer, an outstanding student—pregnant. The father Cooter Foley, a dropout, riffraff, as rotten as the driftwood along Killdeer Creek, which ran beside the curvy road. And then, a student whispered: "Jace Netherton shot himself." Jace, popular, happy-go-lucky. No stories of heartache or disappointment. No evidence of depression. Just one of those senseless events no one can explain. At the only straight stretch on

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