The Next Word

Ages 15-18

Eviatar writes: The cart rolls down the

At the next table, a boy's pencil scratches across a page.

Eviatar's point rests after the.

The scratching stops. Then it starts again.

Eviatar writes a small 1 in the margin.

The other pencil pauses, scratches, pauses, scratches.

He writes 2. Then 3.

Another scratch. He writes 4, then rubs it away and writes 5.

He brings his pencil back to his sentence and writes hill.

The other pencil scratches on. Eviatar puts a full stop after hill.