Sunday Sentence: Western Taxidermy by Barb Howard

Simply put, the best sentence(s) I've read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.

By the time he retired from teaching math and physics at Campbell Heights Senior High School, Simon had been heckled by obnoxious students, threatened by a father whose child's mark had dropped from 90 to 88 percent, stalked by a gang member who flunked Math 14, and tackled by a drunk student while chaperoning a school dance.  On the home front, after Simon's wife died from a cancer that took her voice before it stopped her life, he had raised their daughter Alicia mostly on his own, arranging after-school care and play dates, and carpooling and working casino nights for Alicia's hoity-toity gymnastics club.  None of this prepared him for the stress of dog classes.

First lines of "Basic Obedience" in Western Taxidermy by Barb Howard