Short Stories May 2013 | Page 13

“Jim Turner you’re free to go!” exclaimed Officer Bob.

“See ya fellas, I won’t be back,” said Jim.

As Jim was packing his bags he noticed an officer walking up to him.

“People like you need to stay for life,” said the officer, “you do anything stupid I am hunting you down.”

“Better watch your back,” said the officer as he stared in to Jims eyes. Jim did not know him, but Jim didn’t care he was just happy to leave this dump and go back home.

“Don’t worry Jim,” said Officer Bob, “people like you don’t come back here.”

As Jim gets in his car and he drives home, and thinks about what he’s going to do when he gets home. Maybe he will call his friends or relax.

Then when everything was going great, everything went wrong. Jim was thinking and ran a red light and crashed into another car. It seems everything happened so fast. He crashed and flipped over and went flying until his car landed upside down. He could smell the smoke, he could feel the pain, and he could hear the screams and shouts of the people. Jim knew he was alone and he closed his eyes slowly as he heard someone calling his name.

“Jim, Jim are you ok?” asked a stranger.

Jim couldn’t answer. He was too hurt to even move his lips. There he was so much pain he couldn’t feel anything.

“Jim, come on buddy,” said the stranger.

Jim couldn’t hear much as his life was slowly fading away. If only he knew who the stranger was before he was gone. Jim wished he knew, but everything went away and Jim couldn’t hear the stranger, and his life just went away.

By: Jesus Basurto

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