History Teacher

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Mr. Egbert’s voice sent shivers up your spine like fingernails on a blackboard and yet somehow managed to maintain a shrill monotone drone. Despite this, his class listened with rapt attention.

You see whatever Mr. Egbert said in his history class was the absolute truth.

Not before he said it, but once the words were uttered, the entire classroom was transported to alternative timelines where what he said was…