Gas Station of the Dead by Anthony Renfro

Author:Anthony Renfro [Renfro, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2018-04-23T04:00:00+00:00

THE END

. . . In case you need to know. Cal and Diamond do make it to Key West and with their daughter live happily ever after in the warm Florida sun. Cal never found out what happened to his family though. Until the day he died, he was always wondering.

Bonus Short Story: Devil at the Wheel

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Late one afternoon, Vinnie Green was in his garage working on his 1970 Chevy Chevelle. His dream car was almost completely restored. He was a tall, eighteen-year-old kid who wore his brown hair long and his jeans old. On his feet were a pair of tennis shoes and on his chest, his badge of honor, a logo of one of his favorite heavy metal bands, King Diamond. He leaned out of the engine compartment when his friend Mike Allwa walked into his garage.

“How’s it hanging, Vin?” Mike asked with a big “I got some trouble brewing up my sleeve” smile. Mike (about six inches shorter than his friend with long black hair) was dressed just like Vin, but his shirt displayed another band, a group that was current and new, Five Finger Death Punch–great band if you haven’t listened to them by now.

Mike was the guy that always got Vin into trouble, from selling a little weed to taking a car off a sales lot for a joyride. Mike had gotten Vin to do it all with little or no persuasion. Vin was an easy-going guy, a like-to-go-along-with-the-flow kind of guy, so anything Mike suggested they do, Vin usually had no problems doing.

“It was hanging left until I saw her,” Vin replied, pointing to a pretty blonde in tight shorts walking by on the sidewalk.

Mike turned to see what Vin saw, and he too enjoyed the view. “Man, what I wouldn’t give for a little piece like that.”

“You can keep dreaming, buddy. Society girls don’t hang around with the likes of us.”

“Damn shame.” Mike turned back to Vin, who was now leaning into the engine compartment, banging away on something. “You still interested in a joyride this weekend?”

“I think you remember the last time,” Vin replied, without looking up.

“Cops happened to be there. We lost them though.”

“Got lucky was more like it.”

“How about this? We got it free and clear. Not stolen off a car lot, and no torching this time either, since I know you hate that part of it.”

Vin nearly dropped his wrench, and he looked up so quick that he almost took the top part of his head off on the underside of the hood. “Who the hell is going to give us a car bad enough for us to take a joyride in?”

“My uncle.”

“You’re dreaming. There’s no way he’s going to let you take out that Chevelle.”

“He ain’t going to know we did it.” Mike leaned a little closer to Vin, as he delivered the next part of his speech. “You see, he’s going out of town this weekend; and all we need to do is borrow it on Saturday and bring it back on Sunday, washed and clean, easy as a slice of pie.

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