Fresh Prospects: Another Excerpt From “Camelot Lost”

She was a transfer from LSU New Orleans, who had complained about the rigid rules at the nearby four-year college, Northridge State, which refused to give her credit for several of the freshman classes that she took in Louisiana, including biology. This put her in Zoology as Pierce didn’t offer a biology class, a dilemma about which she seemed quite snooty on my first contact with her. I tried again to break the ice. Her clever approach to dissection was worthy of further comment.