English

1. The classroom glowed like a sweet shop

2. In Mrs Tilcher's Class

2.1. Brady and Hindley faded, like the faint uneasy smudge of a mistake

2.2. The air tasted of electricity.

2.3. As the sky split open into a thunderstorm.

2.4. A xylophone’s nonsense heard from another form.

3. Revelation

3.1. I ran, my pigtails thumping on my back with fear.

3.2. I had always half-known he existed - this antidote and Anti- christ, his anacarchy

3.3. Threatening the eggs, well - rounded, self - contained - and the placidity of the milk.

3.4. They called him Bob - as though perhaps you could reduce a monster with the charm of a friendly name

3.5. I remember once

4. Flowers

4.1. There they are children, she cried. "There are the true flowers of our country, the most precious, the most beautiful.

4.2. It was silly anyhow picking wild flowers.

4.3. One of the airmen, with fair hair, had no face at all: while the other's face was half gone, and what remained was unrecognisable as human.

4.4. In her hand the yellow flower had been crushed into a green and black mess

5. At The Bar

5.1. He looked along the gantry with a bemused innocence, like a small boy in a sweet shop

5.2. The moment crackled like an electrical storm

5.3. The silence prolonged itself like an empty street with a man at either end of it.

5.4. Big man's clenched right fist had hit the base of the glass like a demolition bal

5.5. His eyes were a demonstration loking for a place to happen.