Tales From the Gas Station 1 by Jack Townsend

Author:Jack Townsend [Townsend, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-31T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

“What the heck, Tony? Were you trying for a turkey?” (That’s a bowling reference. A little esoteric, I know, but Tony understood so it made sense at the time.)

“I get it, dude. You’re upset.”

“Yes, but do you know why I’m upset?”

“Look, I should have told you. Alright? But I didn’t want to get you involved, just in case. If anyone’s gonna take the fall for this, it’s gotta be me alone.”

I sighed.

“Will you help me restock the beers while I wrap these guys up again? Then you can tell me exactly what actually happened.”

***

The storm kicked it into high gear without any foreplay. One second, the town was enjoying a peaceful fall breeze. The sun had only set a few moments before, and the town’s kids were hopped up on sugar and hormones, trying to decide exactly what kind of trouble to get into this year. After all, it was Halloween night. The next second, the clouds burst and unloaded a torrent of rain and disappointment on our quaint little community.

Tony was on his way out to the gas station when the storm sirens first started. By that point, there was a blanket of fog on the road and rain so thick he needed his wipers on the highest setting just to keep up. But he was a reliable employee, and it was going to take more than a hellish storm to stop him from coming in to work.

But when he got close to the edge of town, near the abandoned railroad tracks to nowhere, past the last streetlight and beyond the point where the sound of storm sirens could reach, he noticed a man standing in a ditch on the side of the road. And somehow, despite everything that had happened up to this point, he still hadn’t learned his lesson.

He pulled his car over onto the shoulder and rolled down the window so he could yell at the man who was hanging out in the downpour, staring into the woods.

“Hey, dude! You alright? You need some help or something?”

The lightning was growing more frequent. Once every ten seconds or so, and getting closer with each strike. This man was not safe standing out there in that ditch.

Tony assumed from the lack of response that the man couldn’t hear him. So he put the car in park and got out to see what his deal was.

I’ll cut to the chase. You already know where this is going. So did I. When I was listening to his retelling of events, all I could think was, Let’s get on with it. How did he die this time?

Well, as it turns out, there’s a trailer park not too far from the edge of town. And in this trailer park, there’s a crazy woman named Lydia Daniels. I know she’s crazy because she actually bought one of my lawn gnomes a while back. Lydia takes joy in only two things in this world, trucker meth and decorating her lot. She’s the kind

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