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{{Infobox Story
 
{{Infobox Story
|name=Normality
 
 
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|doctor=Eleventh Doctor
|companions=Clara Oswald
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|companions=[[Clara Oswald|Clara]]
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|featuring= [[Courtney Woods]]
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|setting=[[Coal Hill School]], [[2013]]
 
|writer=[[Gary Russell]]
 
|writer=[[Gary Russell]]
|publication=''[[Heroes and Monsters Collection (anthology)|Heroes and Monsters Collection]]''
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|publication=''[[Heroes and Monsters Collection]]''
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|series=''[[Heroes and Monsters Collection]]''
|prev=The Stranger (short story)
 
|next=Buyer's Remorse (short story)
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|prev=Going Off the Rails (short story)
 
|next=When the Wolves Came (short story)
}}'''''Normality''''' was an original story featured in ''[[Heroes and Monsters Collection (anthology)|Heroes and Monsters Collection]]''.
 
 
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'''''Normality''''' was an original story featured in ''[[Heroes and Monsters Collection]]''.
   
 
== Summary ==
 
== Summary ==
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== Characters ==
 
== Characters ==
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* [[Eleventh Doctor]]
 
* [[Clara Oswald]]
 
* [[Clara Oswald]]
* [[The Doctor]]
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* [[Dave Oswald]]
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* [[Tonnchenform]]
 
* [[Courtney Woods]]
 
* [[Courtney Woods]]
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* [[Joshua Adams]]
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* [[Zehra Jalindra]]
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* [[Mackenzie Brooks]]
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* [[Liam Mannings]]
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* [[Chiana Holden]]
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* [[Tommy Breare]]
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* [[Kelly Squires]]
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* [[Sam Kaye-Jones]]
   
 
== References ==
 
== References ==
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* The Doctor and Clara find a [[Tonnchenform]].
* [[Clara Oswald|Clara]]<span> is not comfortable with heights.</span>
 
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* Their following adventure involves a [[dinner]] with alien [[robot]]s, a small [[jewel]]-encrusted [[seashell]] stolen by [[Bozzi the Mysterio]], and a chase across the [[snow]]scapes of [[Halas Four]].
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* Clara reminisces about hearing the [[Long Song]] for the first time and meeting the [[King of Bones]].
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=== Locations ===
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* When the Doctor drops her off at home, he warns her to stay well away from [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|space-time rifts]] in [[Wales]].
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=== Coal Hill School ===
 
* Clara accepts that the Doctor may have helped to get her the teaching job at [[Coal Hill School]].
 
* Clara accepts that the Doctor may have helped to get her the teaching job at [[Coal Hill School]].
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* Yesterday, [[Ben Ellison]] threw [[water balloon]]s at [[Kelly Squires]] in the [[Coal Hill schoolyard|schoolyard]].
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* Other students in [[Courtney Woods]]' English class are [[Joshua Adams]], [[Zehra Jalindra]], [[Mackenzie Brooks]], [[Liam Mannings]], [[Chiana Holden]], [[Tommy Breare]], [[Kelly Squires]] and [[Sam Kaye-Jones]].
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=== People ===
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* [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] recalls a trip she took with [[Dave Oswald|her dad]] when she was nine years old to a tower block near [[Southport]] with a [[restaurant]] at the top. The restaurant had a solid clear [[glass]] floor. Two lads jumped up and down on the glass, shouting they were going to break it.
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** Since then, Clara has not been comfortable with heights, or indeed glass floors. She gets over this by [[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'', when she hangs out of [[the TARDIS]] above [[London]], laughing.
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* Once, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] showed Clara a picture of himself and [[Marilyn Monroe]] having dinner on the [[TARDIS scanner]].
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=== Expressions ===
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* Nine-year-old Clara doesn't understand the phrase "[[safe as houses]]", listing numerous dangerous things would can happen to [[house]]s: they could be "could be "knocked down, [[flood]]ed, felled by [[earthquake]]s, set on [[fire]], [[The Wizard of Oz|taken to Oz by tornadoes]]..."
   
 
== Notes ==
 
== Notes ==
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* Apart from ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'', this is the only story featuring Clara at [[Coal Hill School]] before the Doctor regenerated into his [[twelfth incarnation]], and certainly the only story during this time period to have its central plot take place at and revolve around Coal Hill.
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== Continuity ==
 
== Continuity ==
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* Clara recalls a trip she took as a child with [[Dave Oswald|her dad]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)|The Rings of Akhaten]]'')
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* The Doctor once showed Clara a picture of himself and [[Marilyn Monroe]] having dinner. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Christmas Carol (TV story)|A Christmas Carol]]'')
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* Clara mentions a confusing conversation about [[South America]]n authors with [[Adrian Davies]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'')
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* Clara mentions [[Atif Basra]], the caretaker. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'')
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* Clara remembers going to the [[avocado seas]] of [[Venofax]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'')
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* [[Courtney Woods]] is a central character in this story. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') She again makes a comment about the width of Clara's face. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'')
   
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{{Heroes and Monsters Collection}}
 
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[[Category:Eleventh Doctor short stories]]
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[[Category:2015 short stories]]
 
[[Category:2015 short stories]]
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[[Category:Stories set at Coal Hill School]]
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[[Category:Stories set in 2013]]
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[[Category:Heroes and Monsters Collection short stories]]

Revision as of 02:30, 3 April 2020

RealWorld

prose stub

Normality was an original story featured in Heroes and Monsters Collection.

Summary

to be added

Characters

References

Locations

Coal Hill School

People

Expressions

Notes

Continuity