Something I'm proud of is that I was into numerous things growing up—but I was never a violinist!—and when I invented Helen Nordstrom, I wanted her to have just as diverse talents and interests as I did, and a few more. I had three years of Calculus, so Helen had the same, in college. She also had physics and computer science and art. (But I had chemistry!)
There is a story I wrote, in which there is a murder, and Helen is asked, by her Dean, to take over the Calculus class of the dead teacher. I have no memory of what drove me to write this story, none whatever; but I read it over the weekend, and again I'm stunned at how well I had written it. This is frustrating; I'm in the process of unpublishing all my stories from D2D (the successor to Smashwords), so when I wax poetic about any of my stories, there will be nowhere you can get them from! Well, I'm working on the problem.
To continue: Helen does take over the calculus 2 class. Unlike in many schools, in Helen's school (Westfield College, an entirely fictitious institution), the curriculum of calculus 2 includes a variety of topics, including convergence of series. (Wait; you know, those topics are never mentioned in the story.)
In the story, three of the students are caught, trying to burn the wallet of the dead teacher, but there is no evidence that those kids are responsible for the actual murder. (Robbing a corpse is still a crime.)
The other students turn on the three who were caught (who are allowed to finish out the semester), except for one girl student, Angie, from New Jersey, who helps Helen deal with the class.
Kay
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