This week's pieces of the week feature our senior tutors, some of whom represent our very first HWC tutors. We wish them the best of luck in all that they do, and especially in their writing!
Mrs. Ferguson always walked her cat
down the street at 8:00 in the morning.
This was a commonly known fact that was not debated by the residents of
Ponsly Square. The little silver bell
around her tabby’s neck would softly ring as the lady and her cat ambled down
the street. Often Mrs. Ferguson would
stop to admire the different flowers that grew around her neighbor’s house’s
white picket fences while her black cat would pull on the leash that connected
the two. Any neighbors that happened to
be outside would stop and say hi, though wishing the strange old lady would
continue walking. None of the neighbors
knew where Mrs. Ferguson walked to or why her cat needed to be taken outside
every day. Though all were curious, not
one person asked the lady. And so, each
day, Mrs. Ferguson and her black tabby wandered from their creaky house at the
end of the block, past all the cookie cutter suburban houses, into the vast
forest behind the neighborhood.