Stories tagged “truck”
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Staying Friends
“We’ll stay friends, though, right?” He prepared to leave, my heart in his hand, squeezing it into an agreeable answer without even realizing it. “Yeah, of course,” I said, hardly even stumbling as I choked back tears. Not...
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Hung, Drawn and Quartered
Four in the fucking morning and Stevie Roy scratches the itch. Loads the shells into the 12 gauge, wipes the sweat off his brow and sets the alarm clock. Wakes up and ambles over piles of clothes and old beer cans. Finds his hat and the keys to the tru...
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Killer Klowns – Brain Dead Zombies! Part II
“Why the fuck does this shit always happen to me.” “Fuck you Markus.” “Last time I shall ever trust you and your damn dates.” “You can have fun spending time foundling your own darn nuts for now on.” Alyssa was walking in the forest,...
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Clues to Death from the Not Dead
Can you die one time and not know it? Two times? Six? I think I have. Life comes in fits and spurts for me, you see. I fail to see bits of the past the way most can’t see what is to come. Small clues. Wee hints, you see. For the most part though,...
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Back Down the Mountain
We were headed on our way down the foggy mountain road. It was one of those winding ones, the ones that you always read about in books. The kind that make you feel like they could go anywhere. For all we knew this road could take us anywhere. It was th...
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White Tank Top in A Red Pickup Truck
“Well it looks like it’s just you and me kiddo,” he smiled as they were the only two people of the youth group that had gone to Church that morning, “What cha wanna do?” “Well I’m gonna change outta these stuf...
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Time Warp
He woke to the burning sensation on his tongue, as he looked through the hazing fog. People stood around in a circle shouting, not knowing how long he was passed out for he reached for the table. Falling over as his reach wasn’t close as he thoug...
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The Tunnels Pt.2
Amy stood up from the ground and swept away the dirt from her knees; she looked around her surroundings thinking about what would happen to them if no one were to come and save them. “I don’t know; I hope someone does come.” Amy repli...
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Rogue Trucking
Hans finished waiting by prepping his girl. She was an eighteen wheeler, a “big rig”, with too much dirt and far too many miles. He had heard her dismissed as a “hunk of junk”, but he knew she had it where it counted. Together t...
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Fault
It wasn’t my fault. Okay, not totally my fault. I mean, yeah, maybe I shouldn’t have been walking along the highway. But baseball practice ran late, and it was the shortest way home. And, okay, maybe I should have been paying more (or even ...
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Uninfluenced By Others
It had to be him- she shot down the stairs and ran out the front door onto the driveway. There stood his long lean figure next to his red truck. She stopped at the sight of him. He was about six feet tall-two inches taller than she was- and he was sl...
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That Has Such People in It
James didn’t have time to be frightened before the robot’s hand thrust into the open back of a mid-sized U-Haul truck and dropped him, none too gently. Then the door slammed down, cutting off the light, and the truck started to move. James ...
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A Thousand To One And A Million To Two
“Hello?” James called out. His heart sunk. Now that he wasn’t alone he felt responsible for the both of then. Hearing a groan in reply, he carefully picked his way back across to the source of the rustling, feeling his way along until...