0 comment(s) so far. Please add yours!
File: Extracted from the Archives of Saint Clare’s School for Girls
Document: The Staffroom Files – Part 1
How to Read “Inez of the Upper IV”
The story of Inez de Vries unfolds through a series of documents—some official, pulled from the prim and unforgiving files of Saint Clare’s School for Girls; others are more intimate, drawn from the journals, letters, and scribbled notes of the girls themselves. These pieces will be posted gradually, over the next two weeks, allowing the narrative to take shape not through a single telling, but through fragments. Some will appear typed and orderly; others will retain the texture of handwriting, rendered in a cursive-style font to honor the green-ink originals. Readers are invited to step into the role of archivist, assembling the story from these traces, and imagining the lives that fill the gaps between pages—the tensions, the alliances, the secrets too dangerous to write down. Not everything will be explained. But Inez is watching. And she remembers.
Use the comments to build the story together: ask questions, float theories, invent what’s missing. What do you. think lies between the lines? The archive is incomplete—but the story lives in the spaces between.
Forward to The Staffroom Files, Part I
Or, what happens after Inez hands in her detention essay.
If you’ve already met the cast, you’ll know that Saint Clare’s staff take themselves—though not always each other—very seriously. And once Inez submitted her now-famous detention essay, the real choreography began: memos circulated, tea went undrunk, and several people wrote things they probably assumed would never be read aloud.
What follows is a glimpse into the official (and not-so-official) correspondence sparked by one 14-year-old girl, an unwritten essay, and the instinctive belief that rules are meant to be rewritten mid-term.
Saint Clare’s runs on tradition. And files don’t forget. (more…)