It was very big and heavy, cardboard, cheap painted white with clasps and lock, a holiday case which I used as a school bag, awkward to hold all the books I stored, caught on my bicycle carrier. Cycling home I felt a thud and heard a guffaw: the big school bully had knocked the suitcase onto the road. A challenge, a fight in the field, fear entering my bones.

A school memory which sparked the bullying incident in Peeling Oranges.
http://www.amazon.com/Peeling-Oranges-James-Lawless/dp/1496007646