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The Field Trip
A Short Story
By Guy Thair
Hackney, London, 1986
“I’ve told you already
constable, Terry didn’t come
home. I’m worried sick, the
teachers said they didn’t
notice he wasn’t on the couch
until they got back to the
school.”
PC Dixon sighed, looked
skeptically over his glasses at
the woman in front of him
and tried to gauge whether
her apparent distress was, in
fact, fabricated.
She seemed to be genuinely
upset that her little darling
was missing, but he knew the
score, the Job made you
cynical and the Hackney
Towers estate had a bit of a
reputation, kids weren’t
necessarily the angels their
parents thought they were.
“So he went on a school
trip into the City and you
didn’t know he’d gone
missing until you went to
meet him this afternoon, is
that right?”
A Short Story
By Guy Thair
Hackney, London, 1986
“I’ve told you already
constable, Terry didn’t come
home. I’m worried sick, the
teachers said they didn’t
notice he wasn’t on the couch
until they got back to the
school.”
PC Dixon sighed, looked
skeptically over his glasses at
the woman in front of him
and tried to gauge whether
her apparent distress was, in
fact, fabricated.
She seemed to be genuinely
upset that her little darling
was missing, but he knew the
score, the Job made you
cynical and the Hackney
Towers estate had a bit of a
reputation, kids weren’t
necessarily the angels their
parents thought they were.
“So he went on a school
trip into the City and you
didn’t know he’d gone
missing until you went to
meet him this afternoon, is
that right?”
