Prehistoric Teacher Dies Reading Student’s Paper

Leah Ann Priest died early Saturday morning, January 3rd, after reading a student’s essay. Priest was found late Sunday night in her home by her boyfriend, her thin hands still clutching the shocking paper. Autopsy reports say that Meagan Smoot’s paper shocked poor Priest to death. When Leah Ann was found, her eyes were wide with surprise and the reports show that her heart had immediately began to speed up, but the aged organ couldn’t keep up and she began to go into cardiac arrest. After what must have seemed like hours of excruciating pain, Priest’s heart had almost failed entirely and she fell to the floor, but not before bashing her head into her washing machine where she had obviously been standing as she read the paper.
The attack on her heart had not killed her, but the trauma to her head did. Priest’s boyfriend who wishes to remain anonymous says, “I went looking for her when she didn’t show up for our dinner date. I hadn’t heard from her all weekend, and after I called around, I learned her family hadn’t either. I went to check her house, and that’s where I found her. Her eyes were wide and she had taken a blow to the head. Blood was pooled on the floor, but it was dry already, as was the blood on her wound and the washer and drier.”
When asked what she thought of the teacher, Smoot replied, “I’ll admit I hated her, but I didn’t think my paper was that bad. I loved it. It was one of my best pieces. I love the 1980s and I’m absolutely thrilled my work had such an great effect on her.”
What exactly in the assigned paper had shocked Leah Ann Priest so badly has yet to be determined. Police know for certain the topic of the essay was the 1980s, but the paper cannot be read because it is being held for currently unknown reasons. More information is to be given tomorrow afternoon before the viewing services at Madison-Myers Funeral Home. The funeral procession will be held at MMFH and friends and family are invited to the gravesite afterward.