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Why the Sky Is Blue 
Stephen Dorneman

Matt Fischer hesitates in the bathroom, repeatedly washing his hands. On the couch waits Sheryl Williams, one of the undergraduates taking his introductory meteorology course, Why the Sky Is Blue. Sheryl wears too much makeup and too few clothes. An empty bottle of chardonnay rests on the coffee table. 

Ten weeks ago, a hundred students sat listening to Matt walk through the syllabus when Sheryl arrived fifteen minutes late, clunking down the stairs of the cavernous lecture hall to an open front row seat. He remembered she wore fur-topped boots, a pleated plaid skirt, and a white down vest over a fuzzy pink sweater. She spent the rest of that first lecture staring up at him, hands folded on her desk as if she was in church. Read More…

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