THE GREEN FLY(in the It HAPPENS series)

It happens.

The green fly was our nickname for our sixth grade substitute teacher for Allegre Antoine Griffin

would would sing French tunes to us after she told us it was her code name during the war.

She was giving out croissants at our lunch. We asked her about rumors in the school that she

was a one a good spy. She told us she worked in the Resistance where she met her poet husband

who was murdered by the Nazis after being caught in an Allied ambush in Lyon.

We could  actually picture her in a trench coat in the rain.

Later we learned she married an American GI. who came to pick up our teacher at the end

of the school day.

There was a boy in the back of the class who yelled out "Daddy."