When Two Worlds Collide by Jerome Sitko

Author:Jerome Sitko [Sitko, Jerome]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781734145915
Published: 2020-03-19T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 5

Slaughterhouse Blues or Sin City

"Hell no, Lance!” Joey blurts out, “don’t tell me we’re going into that creepy fucking place.” Pointing, dry blood still spattered on his arms.

“This place is abandoned,” Joey says, as he surveys the slight rolling hills peppered with small, neglected wood buildings that are capped with rusted tin roofs. All of them brandish barely visible building numbers, painted long ago in white. The road leads to the main slaughterhouse that sits atop the hill. It was once the pride and joy of the large operation, now it’s relinquished to mother nature’s brutal mood swings. Its shell is a mix of aged wood and tin sheets used as patches through the years, all of it held together by rusty nails. On the side of the building is a ginormous playful pink pig winking at all who enter. The roof is the same as the smaller buildings, and it has four cement loading docks and several chutes to herd the little piglets inside. If all of that isn’t enough to convince Joey not to keep going, the black clouds and crack of thunder in the east do the trick.

Visibly sweating and agitated, Joey is trying to rub the itchy, dried blood off his arms as he continues his contentious argument that Lance has yet to join.

“It’s going to be morning soon and I don’t think any of us want to be here at night. Plus, it’s going to rain. Why don’t we wait for light?” Joey asks looking around, pleading with anyone who will agree.

Bear is the only one that seems the slightest bit interested and walks over to Joey and lies between his legs to try and calm him. Reno and Jeremy don’t speak but they also agree with Joey; this place is creepy and will only get creepier when the storm hits.

Lance wants to agree with Joey and leave this place until morning now that they know where it is, but where will they go? Plus, he knows that the portal Emma told him about might not be here in the morning.

It’s not like they can get into their comfy beds at home and start again tomorrow. No, they are already here and the quicker they can find the portal, the better.

“What do you guys think? Should we go in tonight or find a place to park and sleep until light?” Lance queries the group. “Remember, we’re runaways in a stolen van and the owner is back there somewhere hurt.”

He doesn’t know Joey murdered Carter, none of them do.

Joey has an epiphany and changes direction mid-stream, guiding his canoe in the same direction as Lance.

Damn, he’s right, what if they find the chomo? The gory image of Carter’s bloody body with his balls crammed into his eye sockets is branded into his mind.

“We can’t chance it. As much as I want to wait, we can’t chance it. If Carter finds help and turns us in the police will know we were heading to Baker in his van.

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