Sub Stories

A Substitute Teacher’S View of the Classroom

In this unique collection of short stories based on actual situations, the author transports the reader into the classroom. There, you will experience the feeling of being an outsider from a substitute teachers point of view. In Sub Stories, Renee Cowderys debut short-story collection, the stories take place in an educational settingan elementary, middle, or high school. Themes consistently touched on are starting over, the unknown, surviving a day at a time, and adult-child interaction. Throughout the thirty-one stories in the book, the author incorporates a glimpse of reality from everything to overcoming job obstacles, dealing with daily difficulties, and recovering from random mishaps, while occasionally just catching a break and owning the day. Discover what its really like to be alone in a room full of kindergartners or to attempt to teach a subject that you barely mastered in school. Find out why its not as easy as it seems while sometimes its the best job ever.