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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...
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A skyful of eyes.

The day had not been off to a spectacular start. Some gormless clown oozing out of a cheap chain-store suit and babbling into his phone had walked out in front of the car. Thankfully Able had managed to brake in time and save the fat idiot's life even if the tubby ingrate only gave him the finger as he walked past the front of the vehicle. The day did not get much better. The systems went down ten minutes before his lunch-hour and so he missed that and spent the afternoon trying to suppress the growls of his angry stomach. It was dark when they finally got the system back online and Able knew that they were lucky to have it back on at all. It had almost been a total disaster, yet he knew he'd still get railed on the next day for having it offline for so long. The evening brought little relief; an hour stuck in traffic with the rain pouring down and impatient arses honking their horns every ten seconds. An accident on the road out of the city, a power cut along a n...
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Blood Jobs: The Cleaner

The worst job I ever had? Easy, I had a temporary hours contract with an outsourcing company as a “hygiene technician”. The pay was awful, the company were a bunch of chancers, I think some gangster or other funded them. Needless to say they were not the most charitable of employers. If that wasn't bad enough I was the only person paid to clean an entire college. The place was Carleton Community College, which served the towns of Goyleside, Wraithlin, Suthering and a few other overspill dumps. It was really small by comparison to most colleges, most secondary schools too. It had sixteen rooms, a gym, a cafeteria area and two study rooms, all of which I was expected to clean in four hours, usually on a Tuesday and Thursday night. The reason for that was that those were the nights they kept open for night shift classes which were of questionable academic merit but they helped pay to keep the lights on. The shift was a pain in the arse but it wasn't what made it the worst job ...
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