Shell Shocked (2008)
“As soon as I got there he started walking, and I fell in beside him. We walked along in a crowd of other kids, not really with them, more sort of going along in the same direction. There was lots of laughing and joking and talking. It all seemed a little silly. We didn’t talk. We just walked. Finally we turned off toward our house and left the others behind.
In the distance we could see the munitions factory. The main building was three or four storeys tall, but there were dozens and dozens of other buildings, some large and some small, stretched out across the grounds, which went on farther than I could see. All around the factory was a tall, barbed-wire fence, with guard towers and gigantic light standards spaced along it. The main gate was two streets over.
“I hope you didn’t fall asleep this afternoon,” Jack said.
“No danger of that. How about you?”
He snorted. “Even if I did they’d probably let me doze. I get the feeling the teacher thinks I’m too dumb to learn anyway.”
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