Easy Rider: A Jim Knighthorse Story (Short Story) by Rain J.R

Author:Rain, J.R. [Rain, J.R.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2014-07-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

My punch had been a little harder than I had intended. Blame it on adrenalin. And having a dozen or so weapons pointed at your back.

The result was that Steel Eye was mostly limp in my hands and I was doing all the work of keeping the son-of-a-bitch on his feet. He stood maybe an inch or two shorter than me and had shoulders nearly as wide as me. Both of which made keeping him up on his feet while I held a gun to his head all the more difficult. Luckily, I thrive in difficult situations. Or so I tell myself.

“Who the fuck are you?” asked the girl who was standing now. She had a tasteful skull tattooed on her stomach, the teeth of which were biting down on her bellybutton.

“I might have made a wrong turn somewhere,” I said, holding Steel Eye mostly up on his feet. “Does anyone know where the IHOP is?”

A handful of bikers took a step forward. Those handfuls had enough facial hair to carpet a small dining room. Shag, of course.

“What the fuck?” one of them said. Hard to tell who said what, since there were a lot of them and the firelight only reached so far.

“That’s what I said,” I said. Steel Eye was coming back to the land of the living, grunting and shaking his head. I held him even tighter, digging the Walther into his temple. He was in for a rude awakening, literally. “Here I am looking for an IHOP. The guy at the gas station said to make a right at the dirt road to nowhere.” I nodded. “Come to think of it, I made a left at the dirt road to nowhere.”

“Let him go,” said a big black guy who was, yes, even bigger than me.

“I can’t do that,” I said. “Steel Pecker and I are going down in a blaze of glory. Okay, that might have been more suggestive than I’d intended.”

“Get him,” said the big black guy.

“Take another step toward me, and I blow your intrepid leader’s brains out.”

The intrepid leader was putting two-and-two together. He was also now fully awake. He struggled in my arms, but I was stronger than he was. I knew this because I was stronger than most people. He fought me briefly, then gave up, especially when I dug my gun harder into his temple. Steel Eye might have grunted. Then again, that might have been me.

The two guys on either side of me stopped moving toward me. They looked uncertain. Steel Eye waved them away. Then he tried to speak, but gave that up quickly enough. My forearm, I was certain, was crushing his larynx.

“You shoot him,” said the black guy. “And we shoot you.”

Steel Eye didn’t like this logic. He gestured toward his men to back the fuck off; that is, if I correctly interpreted his frantic waving. The two guys to my right and left did just that, backing into the shadows. Meanwhile, Steel Eye and

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