Tag: Jason
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I Got Your Back
Back to back, Eli and I looked around in the deepening dark. I could see my breath. “We’re gonna have to run for it,” Eli said, panting. “You first. I got your back,” I told him. “With what?” Eli laughed. “Fuck it, let’s just go together,” I said. “On three?” he offered. In the distance,…
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Full Night
My lungs burned by the time I made it to the Town Hall parking lot; I ran in the open without consideration — thoughts of what could happen to me as the sun finished its descent were too far from my mind to register. When I came around the corner, I saw Cole’s body for…
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I Ran For Eli
“Blue flare when you find him, so everyone knows to head back to the van!” I heard Eli shout after us. I didn’t answer. Asshole. Of course I know to use the blue flare. I could see my breath as I charged out of the van and ran for the nursery’s yard. There was plenty…
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Go Back
Jori pulled the van to a lurching stop, and the other vans did the same — off to the side of the road, out of habit, not because anyone else would be driving along. “Go back!” Thuy shouted. “We have to go back!” The sounds of the others in his van were a cacophony of…