By Terry Manning “Everybody cheats.“ When my classmate said that, I felt my pulse quicken. My earlobes warmed as heat escaped the collar of my shirt. “Not everybody,” I said. “So you ain’t neeevvvver cheated?” a different classmate taunted. “No,” I answered. “You’ve done something,” another one jeered. “Yeah,” I said. “I read the assignment, did the practice test at…

As I was looking up another word for a Voices article, I noticed the Word of the Day for Mother’s Day in the Cambridge Online Dictionary was “ghosting,” that is, a way of ending a relationship with someone suddenly by stopping all communication with them.