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'Satellite' By Simon Doherty INT APARTMENT HALLWAY DAY A very ordinary front door. We hear muffled talking, then the sound of someone rifling through a lot of keys. Eventually we hear the door being unlocked, then opened. JULIAN, the letting agent, enters first, talking loudly over his shoulder to RICH, who blankly shuffles in and closes the door behind him. Julian is young, over-eager and smartly dressed in a cheap sort of way. Rich is slightly older, under-fed and looks like he sleeps in hi...

The Solution Clear and perfect. The answer coursed through him so suddenly that he leapt from his chair and started off down the service tunnel before even really thinking about what he was doing. He had also forgotten to turn off the sun-lamp at the Map Station, and for a second considered going back, before he realized that it wouldn't matter now. Grant was always at him about saving the bulbs at the Map Stations. Grant was always at him about everything. But Grant didn't matter now either....

An Account Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays i sit at the tables. Tuesdays and Thursdays i sit in the rows. The plastic table in front of me is raised at the edges to prevent your tea or coffee or paper-work from sliding off onto the floor if the train stops suddenly or banks round a corner, and if i had a marble or maybe a ball-bearing i could put it in the exact centre of the table and let it loop and curve as it wanted. The train would give it life. The boy in front of me is a student, i can...