horrors2

Safe_Driver.Hell_Cab.tex

  1\chapauth{Safe Driver}
  2\chapter{Hell Cab}
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  5``Wake up, Bavarius! Wake up! Wake up!'' The
  6dispatcher's voice screeched through the radio.
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 10Luke Bavarius was asleep behind the wheel again.
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 14``Wasn't sleeping, just resting my eyes.''
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 16The radio buzzed back ``{\ldots}1977 Ruminate Way, pick
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 21At night the fares usually tip well. Mostly it's vomiting
 22drunks with wallets that are just as loose as their mouths.
 23Luke's been pulling a lot of late shifts driving his taxi.
 24They help keep his mind occupied from the hand life dealt him. His
 25wife is gone now; it's just Luke. The cancer came out of
 26nowhere. It cashed in his wife's last chips. It ate her up
 27from the inside, destroying their lives. All Luke could do was pray
 28and make empty promises as the doctors ran their constant tests and
 29hooked up more tubes everyday. It never went back to being right,
 30she never got better.
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 34With all of his time being devoted to his dying wife, Luke
 35ostracized everyone else around him. Even their only child, Bryson
 36Bavarius was ostracized {\ldots} ostracized with extreme prejudice
 37that it would make you vomit. Luke's neglecting of the rest
 38of his family lead to more trouble for them. Bryson Bavarius needed
 39daily injections to keep his type X diabetes under control. The
 40injections never came. Bryson accidentally ate an entire bowl of
 41sugar. The moment the sugar touched his lips, Bryson's face
 42exploded like a pus filled vomit balloon. He died. When Luke found
 43his body weeks later, the room reeked of rotting vomit and glucose.
 44Luke told his wife that the boy could not make it to the hospital,
 45he was just too sad. His wife got worse with each passing
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 50Luke would never forget his wife's final words; it has
 51haunted him since that day. ``You lied.'' In her final
 52twitches a pressurized pocket of vomit burst from her mouth. Then
 53it was over and it was just Luke and his night shift.
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 57The address dispatch sent Luke to was an empty lot; nothing there
 58but silence. Luke began circling around the lot. It was probably a
 59crank call. Out of nowhere the read door is yanked open and a
 60passenger jumps in.
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 62``Christ, I didn't even see you! Gave me a scare there,
 63well where to?''
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 65Luke looked into the rear view mirror. The passenger's
 66familiar eyes were empty and cold. The passenger smiled and
 67Luke's heart skipped a beat. The smile turned into a
 68grimace.
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 72``Drive Luke, you're just going to drive.'' The
 73voice was hollow.
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 77Luke's taxi pulled into gear. None of the streets were
 78familiar anymore. They turned into endless circles of blurred
 79buildings and drab scenery. Luke had never been so scared in his
 80entire life, and he did not know why. He vomited on his lap. The
 81taste was like the final taste he had of his dying wife.
 82Bile.
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 86The same horrible voice broke Luke's confusion,
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 88``Keep on driving Luke, we're almost there.''
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 92They made it. Luke Bavarius didn't wake up. 
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