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Legend Tripping

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  1. Most of the children of Carlin High School were engaged in the usual playground activities, girl gossiped rapidly sounding like a thousand busy typewriters; youthful first years laughed and chas ed each other around the yard, burning off energy; older kids from the rough end of town hid behi nd the toilets, smoking weed. Steven was sitting alone, perched on the fence like a hawk, watching all the normal mayhem when he spotted Simon Anderson take a nosedive onto the concrete. The boy just went white and dropped, and even though the other kids were making a godawful din, Steven definitely heard Simon’s skull crack like a heavy egg as it smashed onto the ground. The noise was a sickening, hollow sound that made his heart jump in his chest. He immediately jumped off the fence and rushed to see if the older boy was alright. In the seconds it took him to move to where Simon was, there was a large crowd around Simon, some girls were screaming, an older boy was shouting, “Get a tea
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Doug's Dinner

The folks kicked me oot when I wis nae mair than a bairn. Canny say a blame them, they knew somethin' wis rang wae me fae the word go but things wurnae gaun well and, well, I bit the baby. I wisnae in ma right mind, the wee bastard wis just greetin' an' wailin' an' somethin' inside jist snapped so I took a chunk oot his wee arm. I always felt bad aboot that. Tae be honest I didnae much mind it at first, it wis a nice summer an' there wis I, a young male in the prime of his life. I felt like I owned the entire scheme. People were generous seein' ma situation, I got plenty o' haund-oots, even crashed in a few houses for a wee while but I could never settle. I felt cooped up and bolted as soon as I could. I wisnae the only wan either, there wis Shane an' Ben an' Rex an' we'd spend the days runnin' the streets or hingin' aroon' in the back courts. Sometimes we'd take a wee wander doon the park where we'd
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In a Handful of Dust.

Winter's cold bit hard into the city, sharp and icy as a vampire's fangs piercing deep into the quivering jugular of a mesmerised virgin. All warmth drained, the place was frozen, pale grey and practically lifeless, merely exhibiting a vague pulse of tired workers necessary for maintaining its vital functioning. Managed erosion was taking place, a tearing down of massive unwanted structures, a sickly cluster of high-rise slums that pockmarked the modern landscape like a clutch of ancient unlanced boils. Within one of these ugly protuberances, the echoes of heavy labour reverberated down the disused lift shafts, shuddered across lo ad-bea ring walls and floated like noisy wraiths through dark abandoned corridors. The noise of thudding hammers, power-drills and clattering masonry almost drowned out the sounds of the humans hollowing out the c ondemned and inconvenient tower. Upon the eighteenth floor such hammering had momentarily ceased to be replaced by another sound as Greg
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The Dogger Braes

Davie watched the two wee neds in the turd coloured Clio drive off disappointed. The engine roared like a jet, souped up pointlessly, he thought it was like a wonderbra on an eight year old and laughed. They'd go away thinking it was all lies and probably beat off to pictures on the net. They'd been impatient, perhaps nervous. If they'd have waited ten, fifteen more minutes they would have been laughing. Davie knew the score and wondered which one of the girls Owen would bring. He could already feel himself stiffen at the prospect and hoped it was wee Maggie. She was a right dirty cow. Ten minutes later another car pulled off the road and onto the hillside. Davie was dazed for a second by the glare of the headlights and then recognised the vehicle. Wullie Heckle, another connoisseur of the delights of alfresco prostitution. Wullie was an odd one but harmless. He must have been near 70. Davie got out of his car and lit a cigarette as Wullie parked. From the ca
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Gross Domestic Product: 8

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Chapter Eight. It took the taxi almost half an hour to get through the West-End and up through the north of the city out into Milngavie. Some roadworks at the switchback had left the entire end of the town in one long traffic jam, according to the driver anyway. Pete was not impressed, not one bit. By the time he stepped out he’d stumped up twelve quid and his skin felt like it needed massaged by a crazed acupuncturist. The cold hurt was becoming too real for him to bear but he knew he’d just have to tough it out. He’d con Baird, or failing that, rob the place, get that stupid lamp and then he could relax, shoot up and have a nice long gouch. After that he’d go to Allerdyce and before long have another five grand in his pocket. That would give him nearly ten grand, enough to solve his problems. Enough to propel him out of Glasgow’s moribund gravitational pull once and for all. He just needed to keep it together for another hour or two. The house he stood outside looked
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The Scheme

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