Wicked Shadows by Jonas Gary

Author:Jonas, Gary
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Denton & White
Published: 2023-12-27T00:00:00+00:00

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Cars swerved. Tires screeched. Some folks stopped in the nick of time. Others did not. All the vehicles in the vicinity received some kind of damage—broken windshields, dents from debris, or other cars crashing into them.

The freight train crushed a line of cars stopped at the light in two lanes, and the cars in the other lane tried to swerve, but many were smashed in the intersection. A pickup slammed into an RTD bus as both tried to avoid the train and other vehicles. Several cars bounced up on the sidewalk, and two of them crashed into a building.

How do you spell chaos?

Kelly rolled out of the way. Windows shattered. Shards of glass and debris flew every which way. Dust covered everything. I threw myself to the floor and covered my face as the window I’d been staring through blew inward. A tire bounced on the table. The hubcap popped off and hit the wall while the tire smashed into the counter where I’d picked up my coffee earlier.

Fortunately, there were no customers or employees in the path of the wayward tire.

Someone screamed. I think it was a barista, but it might have been a customer.

“Jonathan!” Esther said.

I sat up and checked myself. A few scratches. A small piece of glass lodged in my forearm. I plucked it out and tossed it on the floor. I breathed in dust and coughed it out.

I bled a bit from a few scratches, but they were all superficial.

I got to my feet. The first step I took hurt and my knee nearly gave out. I caught myself on the table and steadied myself. I figured I must have hit my knee on the floor. Nothing broken, though. I checked on the people in the Starbucks. No major injuries. Bumps, bruises, scratches. Stunned silence that something crazy happened out of nowhere.

Esther popped across the street to check on Kelly.

I hopped out the broken window. My knee throbbed when I landed, but it wasn’t too bad. Luckily it was cloudy so I didn’t have to worry about adding a wicked sunburn to my cuts. Glass crunched under my shoes as I moved toward the nearest crashed car while I looked at the destruction.

Part of the DGI building was damaged. People were in shock.

“Call 911,” I said to a man who stared dumbfounded at the wreckage.

“Yeah,” he said, and pulled out his cell.

I helped a woman and a little girl get safely out of the crashed bus.

I glanced at the truck as I ushered them toward the sidewalk. The pickup driver was dead. The cracked windshield, blood, and his head dangling at an odd angle told me that, so I focused on the people in the bus.

Two women exited the building that held the Starbucks. “Oh my God,” one of them said.

“Check on people,” I said, and pointed to the various cars. I helped a teenaged boy get off the bus. He cradled a broken arm, and blood trickled down his face.

“I’m a nurse,” a women said near me.

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