by Julie Weiss Ivan Aleksic Even though the camera won’t be turned on, apply a tinge of lipstick before your class: bombshell pink or scarlet work best. When he joins Zoom, sing a sweet note into your good morning spiel and smile as if sashaying down a catwalk. Just because he’s married with kids doesn’t mean head tilt and hip sway aren’t boxes on his mental checklist of requirements for a good teacher. Ask her to tell you about her family, the easiest and most enjoyable top

by Julie Weiss Max Muselmann If it had all been a bad dream and you had barreled through the front door, ravenous after soccer practice, homework sheets spilling out of your backpack, you wouldn’t have recognized me: eyes the shade of storm clouds, a torrent caving my face. I was proof that a man could grow as thin as the streak that trails a bird in flight. You would have said: dad, why haven’t you washed your shirt? There are ways to eradicate stains but I wanted to wear yo