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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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Gross Domestic Product:21

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Chapter Twenty-One Ernie stood back and slapped his hands together. Smiling, he looked at Connor and said “Done.” “ So what now?” Connor asked. All the technology was beyond him. He’d spent years on intuition, gut instinct and witnessing first hand uncanny events, now it was all done by computers. He felt old. Ernie shrugged, “We turn it on and it measures ambient particles in order to predict probability distribution.” “ I don’t even want you to explain that further. Will it work?” Connor asked and wondered if he should have spend his teenage years studying physics rather than archaeology. Once again, Ernie shrugged. “Probably.” “ Turn it on then.” Connor said. Ernie nodded, pressed a button and then started typing into a large clunky keyboard. One of the small monitors on the antique table flared into life as long strings of letters and numbers streamed down the screen. Within a second or two it ceased and a large set of letters and nu
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Gross Domestic Product :20

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Chapter 20. Buer had been aware that Morton would send people to follow him. He did not have high expectations for the meeting but it was over, time to progress with the original plan, though the agents of Morton would have to be dealt with before he arrived at his next destination. An amusing diversion no doubt but in the meantime he would have to keep driving. He enjoyed the motorway, enjoyed the huge lorries that rumbled beside him, each one a massive risk, threatening to suck his little vehicle under their great deadly wheels. He wondered what such sensations would be like, how long it would take for Bryce’s body to eject him and for a glorious return to non-existence. He imagined the mangled flesh and screeching nerve endings, the panicked pumping of the dying heart, the scent of Bryce’s innards steaming in the cold morning, the agony of shattered bone piercing muscle, the weight of thirty odd tonnes of metal crushing the body. It was tempting, an allure which wa
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Gross Domestic Product: 19

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Chapter Nineteen. The car pulled up outside Baird’s house about twenty minutes after Connor’s bizarre meeting with the little girl and woman. The couple that emerged were both young, both in their late twenties, early thirties at the oldest. The woman, a short plump redhead nodded his way. “Yeardley? I’m Evelyn Stirling, I hear we might have a class four?” “ Yes, hello. It’s in here.” He said gesturing toward the Baird residence. She nodded as her partner, pulled out what looked like photographic equipment cases from the back of the car. The young man smiled. “Could you give me a hand with this ontoscope by any chance?” he asked. Ontoscope? Connor didn’t recognise the word, but got the general gist of its function. “Sure,” he said and helped pull one of the cases from the back seat. It was heavy. “ I’m Ernie,” the young man said. He seemed nervous, excited. “ Yeah,” Connor replied. He walked back towards the gate where Evelyn Stirling was sta
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Gross Domestic Product: 8

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