The Stranger: Marooned by Travis Smith

Author:Travis Smith [Smith, Travis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-14T22:00:00+00:00

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The Cave:

Part 4

C hristopher and The Stranger wandered through the cave without direction. The concept of time was numbed. The bodily need for food or rest was dulled. The memories of what had befallen were in fog.

“So what’s the plan, then?” Christopher asked.

The Stranger shrugged.

“Just walk until something happens? This place is infinite. It just keeps going and going. We could be walking in a giant circle for all we know.”

“We will find a way out,” The Stranger said.

“Out of Hell?” Christopher scoffed.

“Not Hell,” The Stranger corrected.

Christopher waved his arms in the darkness. “Then what? Some mystical cave that’s magically lit by our imaginations?”

The Stranger shrugged. “I’ve witnessed more peculiar spectacles.”

“More peculiar than the dark, well-lit cavern? Look around, man! Where is the light coming from?”

“There is no light.”

“Exactly, and yet we can see each other perfectly, yeah?”

The Stranger shrugged.

“Dude, I’m just as pissed as you are, believe me. I spent my whole life telling Christians how much better I am than they are for not accosting strangers to shove my religion down their throat. Now I’m sitting here exactly where everyone told me I’d end up my whole life for being gay.”

Ye’ll end up in Hell! The Stranger heard inside his head. “You keep using the word gay,” he said.

“Yes! Homosexual! It means I’m sexually attracted to other men, dude. You couldn’t fucking tell?” He flailed his wrists in the air in his antagonistic showman’s way.

“Ah,” The Stranger said. “Of course I could discern that much. I simply knew not the word. Your people condemned you to Hell for your attraction to men?”

“Uh, yeah!” Christopher replied. “Don’t your people hate the gays?”

“I suppose it depends on how condemning their actions are.”

“As condemning as sleeping with other dudes can be, I guess.”

“Hmm.” The Stranger accepted Christopher at his word.

“So is this it, then? Just me and you in Hell? There are infinite dimensions with countless other queers like me, and you’re the only other asshole down here?”

Before The Stranger could open his mouth to reply, they both came to a halt. No sooner had the words left Christopher’s lips than they both noticed a doorway standing in the distance.

As they looked on, the door slowly opened, and an unfamiliar man peered out at them.

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