Report for Chris Pilbeam
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SummaryCould Try Harder

Mr Giles was a very intimidating science teacher. He was seven feet tall with arms made for grabbing, and he used them a lot. A bollocking from Mr Giles invariably had the hardest boy in tears.
It was perhaps with this in mind that Ben Mainwood, having quietly shat himself in class, attempted to push the stool back in with his finger. HE WAS FIFTEEN YEARS OLD.
Ben's ingenuity was not lost on Mr Giles, who let him off with a frogmarching to the toilets and stern instructions to clean himself up.

FACT - people at Hailsham swimming pool were being mutilated at a rate of knots by razor blades that were stuck to the slide with bubble gum. Sometimes they stuck two, side by side, so you couldn't slide around it.

Strangely, I saw no notices relating to these outrages when I visited the pool every week to slide (very, very slowly) down the same structure.

Let's have the 'Special Studies' class - who don't do much in the way of work anyway - travel around the school in wheelchairs for a day to feel what it's like to be disabled.

An admirable idea irrevocably marred when Tim Ives dropped several valiums and some acid before getting in his wheelchair.

If you imagine Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with the whole cast wearing Dreamscape bomber jackets, you're getting the picture.

Let's have the 'Special Studies' class - who don't do much in the way of work anyway - spend a day experiencing what it would be like to be disabled.
An admirable idea irrevocably marred when Tim Ives dropped several valiums and some acid. If you can imagine Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with the whole cast in wheelchairs, wearing Dreamscape bomber jackets, you're starting to get the picture.