My School Got a New Teacher. We're Taught STRANGE Things.

In a third-grade classroom, a new teacher named Mrs. Hannah replaced the beloved Mrs. Clarabelle. She didn't teach math or reading. Instead, she handed out blank pieces of paper and told the students they had to learn to see what was written on them. The narrator, Matilda, watched as one classmate after another succeeded—Pippa, then Ross, then Evie—each one announcing they could finally read the hidden message. But with each success came nosebleeds, headaches, and a strange, distant look in their eyes. The children who could see the paper stopped playing at recess. They stayed inside, staring at nothing, while adults in suits visited to ask them questions. Matilda wanted to be included, so she forced herself to break through the barrier. When she finally saw the words on the paper, she was led into the secret group. The sessions involved visualizing objects until they felt real, but time began to blur. She started forgetting things, waking up in strange places, and suffering from nosebleeds so frequent she couldn't count them. Then one morning, Mrs. Hannah arrived looking disheveled and furious. She wrote "Cheater" on the board and began muttering about a man who had wronged her. She turned on a television, and the children couldn't look away. They repeated her words, her emotions, her rage. Their bodies jerked and bled as her thoughts crawled into their heads. Matilda realized