The Dangling Sound Effect

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I walked into the school’s computer lab. The air always smelled like warm plastic. Everyone in my eighth grade English class sat down in the desk chairs, all of which had varying degrees of damage. We had work to do.

The teacher assigned to the class our first big project where we were to compile a short biography on a famous poet, then create a PowerPoint presentation with the information. Before we entered the…