The Jellyfish Device: Near-Future Science Fiction (Jade Book 1) by William Marshall

Author:William Marshall [Marshall, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Noremac Publications
Published: 2022-04-06T11:00:00+00:00

Chapter seventeen

Dark Humor

Derrick Johansen was in his late twenties and still had some of the athletic look from his high-school football years. He sat in a small shipping office on the inside of a large, dark industrial building that used to be a printing factory. He was listening to a blog about how liberal democracy has been persecuting the Christians when he thought he heard quiet laughing. At first, he thought it must be from the TV, but it looped church videos and he had never heard laughing before.

He ignored it and kept listening to his blog, but after a moment, it was back again, and this time louder.

I’m going to teach that boy a lesson, he thought, and picked up a large flashlight. Derrick was a policeman but took some leave to help the Church with guard duty for a few weeks. Derrick did not like being interrupted. The Church paid him for doing nothing and he wanted to keep it that way.

He opened the door and stomped the thirty meters across the concrete floor, shining his flashlight at the chained, (now bearded) boy. The boy’s eyes were closed from the glare, but he was laughing hysterically.

“I’m going to wipe that stupid grin off your stupid face.”

“My dad’s going to get me,” Alan laughed. “I’m going to be a person again.”

He still kept laughing, and Derrick cracked the flashlight across his face, knocking him over. The laughter stopped and Derrick kicked him in the ribs and legs for good measure. He started walking back to the office and the boy starting sobbing. Derrick stopped and turned back toward him. “I said shut up!” The boy closed his mouth and stifled his sobs, but his chest heaved, and tears streamed down his sunken face.

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