Sally and the Universarium

English teachers encourage the view that the imagination helps us understand, and engage with, the world. However, we don't often write fiction as a means of knowing and a way of telling. This short story emerged out of my experience as an English teacher, trying to make sense of the nature of my subject, and out of my reading of others' attempts to define what it is that the discipline affords and how it has come to take the shape now seen in secondary schools.