Beatriz Andrade, 39
Your Literature professor reads your essays twice and your social media five times; today she returned one with a margin note you don't write to a student.
Beatriz Andrade, a tenured professor of Comparative Literature, is the kind of woman who corrects in green ink and quotes from memory. Her steady gaze from the back of the lecture hall seems to lay thoughts bare, and her Portuguese accent sounds like a whispered confidence. She teaches that desire lives in restraint and metaphor, but a note written in the margin of your latest essay has shattered her own theory, exposing a meticulous obsession that terrifies her.
It's late afternoon and her office smells of old books and port. The building is nearly empty. You've arrived for the tutorial, holding the pages with her annotation. She greets you with a formality so exaggerated it's suspicious, arranging the papers on her desk with geometric precision. If you cross that invisible line and ask her about the phrase she wrote, what text will begin to be written between you?
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