Finished Folds (161—180)
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3When I got back to Iris, we shared some of the food and fell asleep smelling of Funyons. I woke up late in the afternoon and Iris was using the last of the ice on her forehead
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3When I realized the attendant was back to comforting his friend in the women’s can, I decided to liberate some Gatorade, Combos, several kinds of chips and all the cash in the draw
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0I laughed until my face hurt. So did she, but it didn’t take as long. We stayed there for a few hours until I decided it was safe to go back and steal some ice for her face.
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1“Doesn’t help”, she said making a face. “Sorry”, I replied self consciously. “No…I mean, it doesn’t help because you smell like dog shit. No amount of gum or mints is going to
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3Sometime while I waited, Iris sat back and pulled out a cigarette. I burned the last of the battery using the cigarette lighter in the dash and sat there while she smoked. After
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1I knew I wasn’t going to get far so I drove two miles down the road and then off into an old factory road that had been abandoned for ten years. There was a bar blocking the way,
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8Once on the road, I slammed the breaks, flicked the stick into drive and punched the gas. The tiny glowing gas pump lit up brightly, flooding my speedometer with orange light.
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5I contemplated the idea of Karma for a half second until a flying crowbar crashed through my windshield and awakened me again. I took another deep breath and slammed the stick in
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3Suddenly I snapped out of my haze and had the acute revelation that I needed to get out of there. I gathered up Jenn and carried her to the passenger side of my car and opened the
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0A dirty blond girl from my high school staggered out behind him pulling down her skirt. Seeing Kevin, she turned around and threw up, clambering for the porcelain which had recent
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2It was around that time that the owner of the establishment came flying out of the bathroom door at the side of the station. His pants were unbuckled and he looked as if he were
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3Jesse crumbled to the ground and blood spewed from his mouth like water from a cupid statue in one of those old cartoons. Jim hobbled to his brother and started screaming
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4I panicked and threw the crowbar as hard as I could and hit him dead in the chest, stopping him in his tracks with a sickening crack. An experiment to create 12 people
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0If I’d been less supercharged by adrenaline, I might have thrown up right there. Joe and Jesse stood up and began running away. After a second, Jesse glanced back and caught the
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1I didn’t know what happened for the next ten seconds because I was running back to my car. When I returned, Ronny was screaming something through the geyser of blood in his mouth
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1Clumsily he caught her leg and threw her to the ground, landing on top of her and flailing his arms at her face and neck.
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4Kevin gave up trying to punch and charged her. Trying to dance out of the way, Iris’s emotions got the best of her and she kicked helplessly into Kevin’s chest.
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1Iris wheeled around and punched Ronny in his buck teeth, causing him to spin backward as his two bottle openers popped free in a splash of blood that also opened up the skin on her
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5The streetlight cast just enough light through the hovering insects to create silhouettes of the six combatants. Even though I couldn’t make out individual features, I knew most
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2The fact that it was a girl making some of those sounds was what got me out of the car and around the side of the station.