Dr. Sibley, long-standing Chair of the English and Classical Literature Department at Graysonville University, has outlasted many of his detractors. Mysterious consequences await those who defy or disappoint him.

In this story, one of Sibley's students purchases an essay from the Internet and turns it in as his own work. Dr. Sibley has a unusual way of addressing any violations of the school's academic code, and the student's punishment might be connected to an old-fashioned, apparently harmless mode of storytelling — small flannel shapes arranged against a cloth background…