Old Ugly and the great divide: Two sides of a 50-year-old fish tale

Old Ugly and the great divide: Two sides of a 50-year-old fish tale

Preamble … or should I say, “pre-ramble.” The following stories were written over 50 years ago during a classroom assignment under the direction of Ms. Elsie McConville at Ohio’s Columbiana-Crestview High School. The subject was creative writing, a course in which the teacher would give baseline ideas, and each individual student could choose any subject to write upon which applied the given instruction. On one particular day, during the same cl…