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This is a book that has eighteen tales that are littered with disturbing scenes, such as, murder and sex, and has many twists to keep the reader guessing.
Some of these short stories had been published in magazines and finally allowed to release them collectively
Below, is one to whet the appetite.
Not for persons under the age of 18
Detention
He sighed hard and placed his hands over his clammy forehead. Of course he wanted to just go home, but John Best had been busting his balls for months, and Gerry Holden had had enough.
Gerry had been teaching English for the last ten years, and never found the job rewarding at all. He spent years learning about poets, famous writers, had studied their work in detail, and for what? To spend his time telling unruly teenagers to be quiet and constantly pausing every time a mobile phone would go off.
It was a shit job. He hated it.
The likes of John Best who had spent the last few months berating Gerry, didn't really make his life any easier. The name-calling was bad enough, but when the kids found out about Gerry's divorce, the bullying, especially from Best, intensified. Gerry's sexuality was also questioned, and even his performance in the bedroom department was questioned by the nosey students, and Best was the main culprit for the verbal bullying.
"Is that why she left you, Mr. Holden?" "Can't you get it up?" "You got a small dick?"
As if divorce wasn't stressful enough, Gerry had to face the mocking of a dozen pupils a day. The rest of his classes were fine. It was John Best and his sheep-like disciples that were making life hard for the forty-one-year-old teacher.
Gerry had put off detention for Best for weeks, simply because he didn't want to spend his time sitting in a desolate classroom, looking at the seventeen-year-old he detested and that made his life a misery. But enough was enough.
It was after school and both teacher and pupil were both seated in the almost desolate classroom.
"So what do we do now, sir?" Best asked mockingly.
"You sit there and think about what you've been saying and doing for the last couple of months."
Best sniggered, but there didn't seem to be too much confidence behind the smile. His bravery was somewhat diluted now he was on his own and had no audience to perform to.
"Did I say something funny?" Gerry stood to his feet. Anger was etched on his face, but he was nervous. Best could see his teacher was nervous, as Gerry bit his bottom lip to stop it from quivering.
It had been a hellish few months for Gerry Holden. Finding his wife in bed with another woman was bad enough, but having to see his two young daughters for a few hours a week, was a punishment he detested. He was being punished for something he didn't do and now she was demanding a percentage of his wages to finance the two girls. It was something he couldn't afford.
Of course he wanted to take care of his girls, but he needed to find another place to stay, and the threat of redundancies was keeping him awake at night. But when you're a desperate man who can't sleep but has a cabinet full of bourbon, there's only going to be one outcome.
Gerry was taking his classes with a hangover, tired, sleep deprived and in a depressed and emotional fragile state. And the Principle of the school who had an unusual disliking for Gerry, had hinted that he might be one of the teachers to lose their jobs because of cost cutting.
John Best took out a pornographic magazine and began to read it.
Gerry never said a word. He knew what the unruly teenager was trying to do.
He was trying to coax him into a verbal war of words. But so long as Best remained seated, Gerry was going to stay tight lipped.
"So how's Mrs Holden, sir?"
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