Author: Tess Tabak

Tess Tabak is a freelance writer living in New York City, currently working as a ghostwriter (boo!). She is a graduate of the Purchase College fiction program where she won the Ginny Wray Senior Prize in Fiction. Her publishing credits include Athena’s Daughter’s II and Narrative Northeast Magazine. She edits the Furious Gazelle, an online literary magazine.

Principal Tam cleared her throat. “Brad, thanks for coming. Please sit down.” He took the seat in front of her desk. “I wanted to talk about your health education class,” Principal Tam said. “I think that Elmhurst Elementary School was pretty clear in our instructions. A simple educational talk about sex.” “Ahh, yes. The bats and the bees.” “That’s just it, Brad. I’m not sure where you heard that phrase. It’s not quite what we were looking for.” “You mean your parents never taught you the bats and the bees?” “Most definitely not.” “When a Momma Bat loves a Dada…

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