March 5, 2024
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The boned ones. It' s
been a while. We had a party
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with a few extra beers. Then
I find myself at the wheel of a
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car. Luckily, I didn'
t hurt anyone. They caught me driving
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drunk and that changed my plans.
I had to do community service, which
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was better than going to jail.
I was given English classes at the youth
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correction center during the day ten weeks, just when I had to go back
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to school. I also got a
ticket that my parents didn' t want
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to pay, so I got a
night job when my uncle offered it to
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me. I know I should thank
you for not ending up behind bars,
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but at the time it seemed like
I was building my own personal prison.
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The place had a high bar with
barbed wire. Only the guards were missing
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in towers. I crossed the sign
from my uncle' s warehouse. As
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I opened the front door, the
guard dog a big road waiter tied to
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a pole. He welcomed me when
I approached a building under one floor.
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Some windows were dirty. An air
conditioner threw water and the dog licked it.
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While I was grunting, I was
about to open the door. When
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my Uncle David showed up, he
was wearing a branded grey suit and a
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red silk tie. There were no
hugs or handshakes. My uncle told me
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you were making a good impression.
When I was ten minutes late, I
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didn' t say anything and waited
for us to go to his office with
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air conditioning. But instead he started
a tour of the place. As we
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walked, he went over the rules
to work the night shift at the warehouse.
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The first rule did not forget to
feed Samuel the dog Keeper the dog
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did not let me caress him,
but he stopped grunting and showing his teeth.
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We went through a row of sixteen
carts in different dismantling states for parts.
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Some were just metal skeletons, others
seemed like they could roll out of
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the tank, until my uncle opened
the chest to show me what the engine
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was missing. All parts, from
the plates to the windshields, to the
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specific bolts and screws, were recorded
and stored in the tank that was in
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the center of the place. Every
mechanic in West Nebraska called my uncle when
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they needed a piece. We entered
the section of the warehouse, where the
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cars were crushed. There was a
huge machine painted with a bright yellow.
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That looked like a giant toaster,
but instead of putting in a slice of
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bread you would introduce a cart.
I asked him if I could see him
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in action. My uncle David rode
on a tow truck, impaled an old
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cart and dropped it in the car
area. The walls of the press were
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closed from all sides until the ten- foot car was reduced to a fart
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of steel. The noise of the
metal, cracking and breaking, made me
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frown. The sound was loud.
Really. After smashing the car, my
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Uncle David threw another rule at me. No touching, driving, or turning
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on the car press. If he
tried and realized it, I' d
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get out of here right away.
Then he started to give me a hard
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one around the place, next to
the fence. He told me the next
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rule. While we were walking.
I wasn' t allowed to let anyone
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in after my uncle left for the
day. No junk cars arrived at night
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and office hours were from 6:
00 a m to 8: 00 p
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m, so there was no reason
for anyone to show up. He also
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made it clear that he shouldn'
t let any of my friends or my
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girlfriend stay with me to keep someone
from coming in after hours. My Uncle
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David would close me inside when he
left for the day. Like I told
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you, it was like my own
personal cage, I asked what was going
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on. If anything happened to me
and I needed help. He laughed and
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told me that if I was gross
enough to hurt myself in this job and
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I needed an ambulance, I deserved
to die. Besides, if I really
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needed help, I could call him. Then he turned around and told me
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that he was grappling with petty thieves
who would jump the fence at night and
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take copper parts from their carts,
things like radiators, brake tubes and alternator
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had copper. Turns out Samuel'
s barking was more intimidating than his bite,
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and my Uncle David needed someone on
guard during the night, someone spinning
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around with a flashlight for thieves to
think about. Twice before entering, he
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assured me that he did not want
me to be a hero, although he
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considered me to be half lazy,
he was still family and his sister would
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suffer the consequences if something happened to
me. My uncle David thought that my
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simple presence would drive the thieves away
and if any trouble arose, I should
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call him and he would appear in
minutes. Feeling more relaxed, we'
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re still next to the fence when
I noticed something weird. Every few meters,
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someone had stuck small crosses in the
fence with wire. I counted three
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as we walked along the line and
looking forward. I saw more, I
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had to ask my uncle about it. He told me the workers did it
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by knitting the crosses in the fence. I asked why my uncle kept quiet.
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His mood suddenly changed. He got
evasive almost scared. I asked him
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again and he pointed out four cars
at the far end of the scrapping were
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separated from the others. There were
two minivans and two small edans. They
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had all been in accidents, some
worse than others. Our walk took us
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juss in the middle of them.
He seemed nervous to be there. He
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told me that these were what his
workers called the boned cars that were in
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fatal accidents. It seemed that,
once the police ended up with an accident
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investigation and the insurance company had settled
all the claims, the cars ended up
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here where they would be stripped of
parts. The problem was that employees didn
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' t like working in these vehicles. They felt it was like taking away
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the jewels from a corpse in a
coffin. Their workers thought it was only
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bad luck working on these cars.
There were also some incidents. He said
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that some of his workers had suffered
their own accidents after working in the cars.
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Again, my uncle was being lazy
and I wanted clear answers. He
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explained that one of his workers was
crushed by an old boner a few months
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ago and or or another use lost
his hand after accidentally cutting it off by
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taking pieces from another. That'
s why the employees started putting crucifixes on
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the fences. It was to keep
the bad aura inside the scrapping. They
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didn' t want anything to follow
him home. My uncle thought his workers
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were too superstitious, but he allowed
me to look back at the four boners.
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Suddenly I felt that I was standing
in a royal cemetery and each of
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these cars was a giant metal tomb. I asked my uncle about them how
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many people lost their lives there and
how, but he said he didn'
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t know and didn' t want
to know. Nothing would change if I
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knew the details of the accidents that
the cars brought here. His job was
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to get rid of them and that' s what his feet were doing,
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crawling and his voice. Aspera betrayed
his uneasiness. I felt something in that
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place, too. It wasn'
t right. I noticed that three of
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the four boners weren' t completely
wrecked. They didn' t seem to
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have been in any major accident.
They had dented panels and one had the
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roof severely crushed, but nothing fatal, although the most da blue had his
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windshield moved with a hole in the
middle my mind imagined the body of someone
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thrown forward his head crashing into the
glass. I was wondering if there were
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any pieces of hair still stuck in
the fragments. A chill ran through my
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spine while I was thinking about it. The only car that seemed to have
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been smashed to death was a black
miniban. It was mainly a wrinkled pile
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of steel. Although the door on
the driver' s side was still attached
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and it seemed that it could be
opened. The rest of the car was
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just metal folds for a moment I
thought the car had blood leaking, but
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I realized it was just rust leaking
from its bottom. My uncle explained the
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last rule this area, like the
car crusher, was off limits. He
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said something about insurance problems with these
cars and there was no need for me
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to worry about this scrapping section.
When I was doing my night rounds,
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that was good for me. The
area gave me the creeps. My Uncle
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David walked back to his office.
I was done showing myself around. I
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kept hanging him up. A few
steps back. I heard a noise,
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a deaf sound. I turned around
to look at the boners and for a
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moment I thought I saw a young
woman in the blues. Her blond hair
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was tangled her white face black eyes. I was hitting the glass like I
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was trying to get my attention.
Right then. Samuel barked and then let
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go of a howl. I turned
around to see the dog howling and barking
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like he was warning me. When
I looked at the massade again, the
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face in the car was gone.
I approached my uncle, a little restless,
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but convinced that the whole issue of
death was affecting me. Samuel stopped
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barking, which also calmed things.
I saw my uncle walk out the door,
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park his car and go back to
the fence. He took out the
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keys and officially locked me up at
night. He made a sign with his
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hand and left a trail of dust
behind his car. As he was leaving,
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when Samuel approached me. I realized
I wasn' t completely alone.
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I walked into the office with air
conditioning and grabbed some dog food from the
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sack and poured it into Samuel'
s bowl near my uncle' s desk.
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He ate it like he wasn'
t fed in a week. Although
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I felt bad about it, I
had to get Samuel out of the office
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to play his role as a watchdog. After dinner. It took a bit
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to persuade him. I had to
use another bowl of food to get him
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out the door. I wrote down
the time it was seven thirty. I
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had another hour before sunset, when
I' d have to make my first
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rounds for scrapping. I had my
feet up and I was playing some game
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on my phone. When Samuel started
barking. It was guttural, snoring and
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angry. I opened the door and
was hit by heat. It was still
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a scorching heat. Even when the
sun was about to hide. I followed
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the sound of Samuel' s barking
and among his whining I heard voices.
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I couldn' t understand what they
were saying, but at least there were
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two people screaming. I ran down
the right edge of the fence and found
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the dog, looking at the barrier
and barking nonstop, I let him know
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that everything was fine and after a
minute he got tired and stopped. There
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was no one in sight, but
there was a blanket on the other side
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of the fence and in the dust
there were traces. It seemed like someone
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was planning to climb the fence and
throw the blanket over the barbed wire to
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get into the scrapping. Suddenly I
felt very protective of my uncle' s
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place. I screamed at the empty
landscape on the other side of the fence
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that would call the police. I
stayed there for a good five minutes,
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just watching, letting him know that
someone was taking care of the place.
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Samuel gave up before me. Heading
to the office and crawling back, I
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decided that at least for the next
hour, more or less, I should
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pass it on the small outer porch
of the office. There was a metal
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rocker to sit on while I was
swinging back and forth, while I was
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dark with the old dog at my
feet, I didn' t get my
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phone out. I just sat there
and watched the day happen at night.
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Then I heard the voices. Again
I was surprised that Samuel didn' t
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let go of a bark. Instead, he aired a weird sound like he
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was complaining. When I looked down
at him, he seemed to shrink into
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a tight ball with his tail tucked
under his hind legs. I assumed the
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robbers had returned to get their blanket
back and could try another attempted robbery.
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I grabbed the flashlight my uncle gave
me and went back to the fence.
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I focused my light on the fence
and shouted that the police were on their
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way, but the voices didn'
t stop. My flashlight found the blanket
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exactly where it was when Samuel and
I saw it in the afternoon. Then
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I realized that the voices did not
come from outside the scrap, but from
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within. Maybe they' d already
jumped the fence I turned around trying to
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find the voices. My light fell
on the bonnets. The sound came from
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one of those cars. It was
the green Chevicavalier that had the roof crushed.
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The little light was on inside the
car and the voices came from there
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as much as I didn' t
want to slowly approach the car. Then
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I realized that the voices were talking
about sports chattering about how the Nebraska football
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team would do that fall. It
was the local sports program. The radio
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in the car had gone off somehow. I fought my fear. It was
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probably just a short circuit, but
I also wondered if it could be the
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thieves who were trying to get the
radio out. I was about to dial
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my uncle' s number, but
I thought I should at least make sure
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so I took a few more steps
towards the car until I got a good
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look inside. There was no one
there. Without realizing it, I had
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walked to the green chevy. The
radio voices kept talking and I inspected the
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interior of the car and made sure
there was no one there. I leaned
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down to look through the back window
and confirmed that there was no body hidden
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in the back seat or under the
board. It was just me and the
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green che I saw. I reached
the door on the driver' s side
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and pulled him over. Indeed,
the board was illuminated and the radio was
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on. I sat in the driver' s seat having to shrink because of
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the crushed ceiling and then reached the
radio' s day to turn it off.
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That' s when the car door
slammed shut on its own. The
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flashlight fell out of my hand and
landed outside the car. I tried to
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push the door to open it,
but it didn' t move. I
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couldn' t help but think about
the face of the blonde woman I thought
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I saw in the other boned.
I started panicking. I knocked on the
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door with all my weight, but
it didn' t move. Then I
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reached the passenger' s side and
tried that door. Again, my hands
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spread towards the steering wheel. I
grabbed him frustrated, shaking him and screaming
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as my palms held the wheel.
Everything went black. There was in the
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dark a black void like ink and
then, as fast as that happened.
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There was a light. I wasn' t sitting in the junk car,
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but I was driving him down a
road. The radio was on. The
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guys in the sport were chattering again, but the players they were talking about
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were from two years ago. The
lampposts passed quickly. I looked down at
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the speedometer, and I saw it
going 100 miles an hour. Suddenly,
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my right hand came down and pressed
a button on the radio, switching the
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radio guys' station to music and
I felt my foot pressing the accelerator.
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A blurry sign from the highway passed
was for the exit on Route eighty-
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eight. I knew where I was
heading east, towards Lincoln. I felt
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the adrenaline rushing through my body my
hands tightened the leather steering wheel harder.
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I let my gaze turn away from
the road to the rearview mirror to take
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a look at myself. But it
wasn' t me. He was a
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40- year- old man,
the driver of Chevy, the driver who
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died right then. A deer jumped
on the road. I turned the steering
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wheel completely to the left to avoid
hitting it, but the impulse of the
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car made it move forward. I
started going around and then I kept going
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around. I counted eight flips and
at the last turn my skull hit the
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roof of the car and felt my
neck break. I heard it too.
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A loud snap caused my head to
fall forward by swinging down. It was
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like a head on a rag doll, useless neck bones and muscles. My
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eyelids blinked and then I let go. The steering wheel was back in the
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guase sitting on the Chevy. Samuel
was standing in front of the car.
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My hands went to my neck.
Everything was well nothing broken, my heart
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was pounding and every nerve in my
body seemed electrified. For a second,
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I thought I' d take the
wheel again, but I wondered if my
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body could handle another round of what
had just happened. I was also afraid
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that I would come back. Maybe
there was a chance he wouldn' t
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go back to scrapping. Instead,
I reached the handle of the car door,
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pushed it and opened it. I
could barely stand up. When I
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looked outside, I noticed the sky
was lighting up. I pulled my phone
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out of my pocket and saw it
was almost dawn, which I thought only
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took a few moments. It had
been hours. My uncle would be arriving
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soon. I staggered back to the
office with Samuel by my side. By
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letting me fall into the rocking chair, I tried to make sense of what
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had happened, but I really couldn' t. I thought maybe I hit
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my head in the door frame when
I went to turn off the radio and
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hallucinated everything, but it was too
real. I know what happened. My
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uncle' s car stopped at the
door. I was still a little dazed.
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When I gave him the summary of
the night, I informed my uncle
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about the attempted robbery and walked with
him as far as the blanket was still
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outside the fence managed to hit me
hard on the back and let me know
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that it was already a valuable hire
on my way home that morning. All
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I could think about as I walked
the road was what happened in the car.
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The Cheve at full speed reproduced over
and over again the combination of fear
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and emotion kept running through my system. I was counting the minutes so I
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could go back and try the other
boned ones and see what would happen.
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I got to sleep a few hours
before my brother dropped me off at the
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youth detention center to do my community
service. I' ve been distracted all
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day. I practically ran about two
kilometers from my home to my uncle'
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s place. That afternoon, right
at the time, a car was coming
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at full speed along the road faster
than usual. I stopped and watched him
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approach. It was a few blocks
away and it was hard to see exactly
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what kind of car it was.
But the music that sounded from the radio
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of the car made me stop and
watch unbelieving. It was the green car,
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the two- door chev. The
stench of the night before was drifting
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from his lane towards me. Now
I could see the driver. He was
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the same man. His head face
down and swinging from his broken neck through
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his chest like a pendulum. His
eyes were fixed on me and he smiled
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I came out of the moment and
ran to the main gate of the scrapping.
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My feet slipped on the loose gravel. The music got louder. I
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didn' t want to turn the
wheels of the car hit the gravel road.
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It was right behind me I reached
and grabbed the fence and the car
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disappeared. I turned around to see
an empty road. There wasn' t
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even a cloud of dust. At
that moment. My uncle left his office
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and shouted a greeting. I gave
him a half- healing while he was
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still trying to process what had just
happened. My back was wet with sweat
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and I was struggling to catch my
breath, while my uncle was walking to
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let me in. Of course,
I couldn' t tell him what had
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just happened. No sane person would
understand. My uncle left earlier than the
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night before, as he didn'
t have to go over the rules that
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he had already broken, even after
what happened earlier on the road. I
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still wanted to experience being in another
bone. The curiosity was overwhelming. I
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pulled the metal rocking chair from the
office porch and sat right in the middle
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of the creepy cars. Samuel didn' t follow me. He still seemed
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uncomfortable with that scrapping section and stayed
in the office. I felt crazy and
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that made me anxious. I'
ve never been addicted to any drugs in
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my life, but this is what
an addict should feel waiting for his next
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dose. I was trying to decide
which car to try. My eyes continued
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to look at the black miniba,
which was almost shattered for some reason.
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I felt I had to wait until
the sun set as if it were part
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of the ritual. I looked over
my shoulder and the sun was already about
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to hide. It wasn' t
dark yet, so I waited for the
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black minivan door to squeal on its
own. I had read my mind somehow.
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These cars were now connected to my
thoughts. I slipped into the driver
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' s seat. I had to
see myself squeeze barely able to sit down,
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as the passenger side and ceiling were
crushed. I sat down and then
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the door closed by itself. There
was a moment of doubt, a sense
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that this was wrong, but the
overwhelming desire to know about the other boned
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ones overcame everything. My hands found
the steering wheel, there was a flash
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of black and then I was driving
in the minivan. It was a rainy,
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wet afternoon. I looked at the
radio clock and blinked at three o
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' clock in the afternoon. I
couldn' t locate the highway I was
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on. It was large three lanes
in both directions. Probably one of the
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interstate highways. My eyes went down
to the speedometer. It recorded a reasonable
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speed of one hundred and five kilometers
per hour. The rain hit the windshield
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harder. I put them up a
little bit more for breezes, but they
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didn' t do much to clear
the glass. There was a thunderstorm and
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then the highway lit up when lightning
struck the nearby ground. I wanted to
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see who it was. So I
took a look at the rearview mirror and
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saw a woman with red hair under
a baseball cap. I was probably about
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30 years old and smiled to see
if the woman was smiling too, but
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then I saw something that made that
smile go away. In the rearview mirror
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I saw not only the woman,
but also a large 18- wheel truck
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blinking with its lights to get me
out of the lane. I didn'
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t want to experience this. I
tried to let go of the wheel,
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but I couldn' t. It
was like my hands were welded behind the
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wheel. The car wasn' t
gonna let me out. I tried to
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close my eyes, but I couldn' t do that either. Suddenly,
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I was no longer expecting a euphoric
travel experience. My arm muscles hurt.
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As I struggled to free my hands. I saw the truck fast approaching from
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behind in the rearview mirror, but
she heard. I didn' t turn
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on the intermission or change lanes.
The truck accelerated almost on top of her
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or me we were one and the
same thing I screamed hoping to somehow impact
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the driver to move, to do
something, to try to change what was
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about to happen, but I knew
I couldn' t. My sight.
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It passed from the rearview mirror to
the windshield through the water mist. I
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could see the brake lights. Someone
stopped in front. I stepped on the
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brakes slowing down, but the truck
behind me didn' t. He hit
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me with the strength of a thousand
mallets. Embarrassing me against the truck stopped
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right ahead. Glasses and pieces of
metal fell on me. The airbags opened
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up and then everything went dark again. My hands got loose from the steering
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wheel I fell out of the mini
van My face hit the ground I crawled
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crawling from the car. When I
was about twenty feet in the day,
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I turned around and saw the door
shut. My legs felt like gelatin as
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I staggered and headed back inside the
office. I collapsed in the chair by
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the desk and my fingers turned off. The air conditioner switch was already shaking.
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The next five hours I spent looking
at myself in a mirror over a
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gray filing cabinet. The horrible clash
of the miniban repeated itself in my brain.
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My uncle' s car came into
the office and pulled me out of
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my trance. My uncle asked if
everything was okay. As I walked past
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him to the front door. I
screamed that nothing happened and that I would
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see him later on the way home. I was nervous. My eyes scoured
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the road in search of the green
che I saw or the black miniba.
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Every car that approached made me run
to the corner and hide waiting for the
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vehicle to pass before walking again.
What should have been a twenty- five
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- minute walk. It took almost
an hour. When I finally got home,
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my mother wanted to know what was
going on. I couldn' t
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hide the pale state of shock on
my face. I told him it was
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nothing, just the lack of sleep
and let my bed absorb me. When
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I got to my room, the
alarm woke me up somehow. I managed
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to grab a few hours of sleep
before heading to my teaching job. My
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brother texted me that I was outside
and ready to take me downtown. I
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ate a banana and was about to
go out the front door. When I
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took a look at our entrance,
there was a black miniba parked in it,
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the one that had no damage and
was driving. The night before I
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stopped and went to the front window
and looked through the blinds. My brother
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' s car was on the street
waiting for me and the minibana was at
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the entrance. I took a step
back blinking a few times trying to clear
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up any craziness that might have slipped
into my mind. Before you look out
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the window. I texted my brother
again and asked him if there was a
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van in our driveway. He answered
me to stop joking if I didn'
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t want to be late, took
a step towards the window and looked again.
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The redhead woman had her face pressed
against the window. His eyes were
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black spheres. As he looked at
me, I got another message saying we
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' ll take you there. The
phone dropped out of my hands. There
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was a sound from another message.
I picked up the phone terrified by what
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I could read, but it was
just my brother. Giving me a final
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warning, I sent him a message
telling him that I was not feeling well
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and that I was going to miss
my community service. That day I heard
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him walking away. When I looked
out the front window, the van was
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gone, too. I went back
to bed, but I couldn' t
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sleep. I had the urge again, the strange urge that I needed to
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sit in one of the scorched.
I can' t explain it, but
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it was useless to fight the impulse
Something was forcing me to go back to
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the junkyard. All I knew was
that I couldn' t resist the desire
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to get into another bone. I
don' t remember well when I left
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my house and walked down the road
to my uncle' s place, when
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he let me in the door,
I was a little irritable. My uncle
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wanted to know why the rocking chair
was in the middle of the bony.
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I told him it wasn' t
me, which just upset him. Plus,
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I couldn' t have been someone
else and he told me to remember
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the rules. I just shrugged my
shoulders and told him I' d keep
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an eye on the thieves. That
night, my uncle issued a warning to
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do exactly what he was paying me
for and nothing else. Then he left
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I left Samuel on the porch of
the office. I was snuggled near the
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rocking chair. Sitting on the ground
in the middle of the bone. I
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felt my attention in the bluemost,
the car that caught my attention first,
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the one that had the ghostly face
of a woman who looked at me the
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first day. The door opened.
I heard Samuel complain and I lowered my
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head and crouched into the blue car, the one with a hole in the
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windshield. The door closed with a
strong blow. I looked around the inside.
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There was no real damage, the
air bag had been activated and all
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the glass on the board gauges was
shattered. But otherwise, the car didn
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' t seem to be in a
fatal accident. My hands rested on the
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wheel and then my fingers rolled around
him. A black curtain rolled all over
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and then was driving in the dark. It was night. He could have
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been anywhere. There were no signs
of buildings, no road marshals. It
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was a two- lane road that
went through a particular place. There were
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no lampposts. The only light came
from my headlights. I looked in the
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rearview mirror to see my face.
It was the same one I saw in
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the back window as I was walking
away from the boners, but this time
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it wasn' t a corpse.
Instead, she was a twenty- year
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- old girl with blond hair and
pale blue eyes. A little teddy unicorn
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hung from the mirror. The radio
was on, it wasn' t raining,
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it wasn' t speeding. For
a moment everything seemed to be fine.
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Then the Masda lighthouses picked up something
later. On the right side of
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the road there was a small white
car with the hood up. I felt
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that I was playing the brake by
slowing down behind the damaged vehicle. Then
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something strange happened, a new twist
in the experience of the boners. We
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both got out of the car.
Now standing around we looked around we loved
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the head in the car there was
no one there. Then I heard the
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Rubia driver scream if anyone needed help. There was no answer. Then we
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took our phone and took a picture
of the car and its license plate was
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back behind the wheel and we walked
away from the white car. I was
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about to fasten my seat belt when
I took a last look at the broken
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little white car in the rearview mirror, but instead of the car we saw
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someone sitting in the back seat,
a man with a red mask and reflective
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sunglasses. There was a scream of
her scream and then I felt a leather
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belt around my neck. Squeezing hard, I couldn' t breathe. Rigid
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leather sank into my skin. I
had to drop the steering wheel to try
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to slip my fingers under the belt
and gain some space to vacuum a little.
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The car roamed the road from left
to right, my legs stretched beating
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the dashboard. My heels cracked the
meter' s glass. My eyes met
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again. The rearview mirror was able
to see the man wearing a mask and
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sunglasses leaning over the front seat,
I saw a metal mile marker on the
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left side of the road. With
all my strength I stretched my foot to
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hit the throttle and grabbed the wheel. I gave him everything and accelerated to
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the sign. The man in a
ski mask let go of his belt and
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crouched behind the seats. Just when
we hit the steel pole. The air
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bag exploded. Then his voice opened
through the sound of the girl' s
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last gasps. Everything went black for
a moment and then I was back in
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the Jadeé junkyard by air. As
I fell out of the car, I
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felt something damp on my forehead.
My hand went up and when I pulled
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it back, I was in the
blood, my blood. I also felt
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that my neck had been tightened with
a rope. That was it. I
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wasn' t just experiencing the deaths
of other people I almost died This time
427
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I was about to dawn and my
uncle would be there soon, but I
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didn' t care. I was
officially resigning and wanted to get out of
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the junkyard. Now I couldn'
t spend another minute in that place.
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I marched to the office, opened
the door and started looting the room,
431
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looking for another key to leave.
I searched the filing cabinet. Then I
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opened all the drawers in my uncle' s desk. My hand found the
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knob of the last drawer on the
bottom and I opened it in the drawer.
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There was a scab mask, a
leather belt, and reflective sunglasses.
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The room started to spin I took
a step back I would faint if I
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didn' t sit the office door
opened my uncle' s gaze met mine.
437
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Then his eyes went to the desk
and open drawer. I pulled back
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a little bit impressed with fear and
trying to disguise. I looked at a
439
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face of astonishment and nervousness in my
uncle and asked me if that was what
440
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I was doing, to which I
quickly told him nothing. I was just
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looking for something to write with,
some pen or pencil and it got interesting
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to me. That red mask was
the first thing that came to my mind,
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for at that moment I felt a
strong terror when I discovered that the
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one who had killed the woman was
my own uncle. He just stared at
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me with a very nervous face and
told me that he was fine, that
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they had given it to him a
long time ago and that he only kept
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it there. I wanted to retire
from there as soon as possible, but
448
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my uncle stopped me the truth that
at that moment I felt a horrible terror.
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I thought you realized that you knew
your dark secret that you were giving
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me. He asked me if anything
new had happened during the night, to
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which a little bit sharp and nervous
I said no. Nothing had happened.
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I pulled out of the office and
headed fast for the exit. Although I
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wanted to run, I had to
keep hiding, because I didn' t
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want to look suspicious all the way
home I went thinking about everything that had
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happened. I felt very overwhelmed,
I no longer knew if what had happened
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was real or product of my imagination. I got home, it hurt my
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head to think so much. I
felt very tired and sleepy and without realizing
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it, I fell asleep the alarm
woke me up, something that startled me
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quite. I wasn' t comfortable
anymore, I didn' t want to
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go to work with my uncle that
night. I didn' t go to
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community service again. Again with the
excuse of being sick. I began to
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investigate a little about being able to
give peace to the spirits who were in
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the bonnets. The only way to
do that was with a mass and blessing
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the cars, but I didn'
t know how to do any of that,
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so I decided to take a father
to bless them. I knew I
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couldn' t get a father into
the place without my uncle finding out,
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so I had to confess that at
night I had noticed things, weird things
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out of our understanding. I called
him that same moment I didn' t
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tell him exactly what I lived.
I lied to him I just told him
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I was looking at shadows and listening
to weird noises that weren' t anybody
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' s. He just made fun
of me. He told me he was
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a fearsome worker, but he let
me take a father to bless the cars,
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if that made me feel good and
didn' t distract me from work.
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After a few hours, I was
able to convince a father that very
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afternoon that, right on my way
to work, he would bless the cars
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before my uncle closed everything and left
me inside the place. I was already
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there. It was close enough for
my uncle to close everything. The father
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took a few minutes to arrive.
I was just looking at my uncle'
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s face, kind of frustrated and
annoying. I can' t deny that
480
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I was still afraid to be close
to him, but I knew he wouldn
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' t do anything to me,
because he had no idea he was a
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murderer. When the father arrived,
I told him where the cars were.
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The father said a few prayers to
each car and threw holy water at them
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all. While my uncle watched carefully. I began to think that he did
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believe that something was going on with
the cars, because I and his workers
486
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experienced strange things with them, but
only pretended to be skeptical. The father
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finished and retired. My uncle locked
me in the place again saying luck to
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me. While he was getting in
his car. There was only silence.
489
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I stayed there and for a moment
and realized that each of the cars I
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was in was leading me into this
to discover that my uncle was a murderer,
491
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but I couldn' t accuse him. I didn' t have any
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evidence and mention any kind of thing
related to that. Maybe I could get
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into trouble with him and now I
would have reason to hurt myself or,
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worse, kill myself. I couldn' t do much about it. I
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think all I could do was take
them to the father to try to give
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those spirits peace. That night.
I didn' t expect any kind of
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activity, but I didn' t. Soon after my uncle left, I
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went into the office. I really
wanted to see if the mask was there,
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but I didn' t want to
do it in case I had hidden
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some camera waiting to catch myself again
looking at the mask, I didn'
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t want to risk it anymore.
It gave me too much insecurity, as
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the sun hid and the uz absolute
darkness fell. While I was in the
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office with Samuel, this time I
did let him in, as I wanted
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to feel accompanied. He was still
terrified of what he lived for. Samuel
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was lying down and I watched him
lift his head up quickly and stop his
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ears. His tail wafted very little
while he was hiding it. After seeing
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Samuel I heard a loud noise like
static. I left immediately with the flashlight
508
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and the noise came from the blue
massade. The radio was on again,
509
00:40:34.039 --> 00:40:38.199
but it was just a static that
made strange noises. I didn' t
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want to get near the truth that
I didn' t have the courage to
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00:40:40.360 --> 00:40:45.679
do it anymore. I thought nothing
would happen anymore, but I understood that
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the woman who killed my uncle would
not rest in peace and would still cling
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to this world until justice was done. I didn' t go to the
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car. I just went back to
the office with Samuel and I stayed there.
515
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I spent the whole night. There, after a few hours, since
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my uncle arrived, I told him
I wouldn' t work for him.
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I told him I was getting pretty
tired working at night. He rebuked me
518
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:15.559
by saying that I had told him
in time that if I could stay a
519
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few more nights in what I found
some candlelight to which I refused, I
520
00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:23.519
no longer wanted to spend one more
night there, knowing that a sorry soul
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would remain there every night and that
my uncle was the cause of that spirit
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not leaving this world. I couldn' t see my uncle anymore. In
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the same way I continued with my
community service. I had to submit a
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prescription to avoid an arrest, although
I no longer wanted to cross words with
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my uncle. The last time I
spoke to him was to ask him if
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he could give me or sell Samuel, with the excuse that I had become
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quite fond of him, because I
knew I was not having a good time.
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There at night I was dying of
fear. I had him mistreated by
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my uncle. He refused to give
it to me, for he told me
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it would be good company for the
new guard who was working there, but
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after insisting so much, he ended
up selling it to me. Now I
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feel like it' s very quiet, without being afraid every night or suffering
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from hunger. I' m not
talking to my uncle anymore. I don
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' t attend family reunions much from
my mother' s family, more because
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I didn' t see that killer' s face. I feel a little
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powerless not being able to do anything
to help that soul in sorrow and not
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00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:37.480
be able to do anything about it
with my uncle. That' s already
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out of my league. Tale written
and adapted by Ramiro. Contreras
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The boned ones. It' s
been a while. We had a party
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with a few extra beers. Then
I find myself at the wheel of a
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car. Luckily, I didn'
t hurt anyone. They caught me driving
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drunk and that changed my plans.
I had to do community service, which
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was better than going to jail.
I was given English classes at the youth
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correction center during the day ten weeks, just when I had to go back
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to school. I also got a
ticket that my parents didn' t want
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to pay, so I got a
night job when my uncle offered it to
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me. I know I should thank
you for not ending up behind bars,
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but at the time it seemed like
I was building my own personal prison.
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The place had a high bar with
barbed wire. Only the guards were missing
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in towers. I crossed the sign
from my uncle' s warehouse. As
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I opened the front door, the
guard dog a big road waiter tied to
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a pole. He welcomed me when
I approached a building under one floor.
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Some windows were dirty. An air
conditioner threw water and the dog licked it.
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While I was grunting, I was
about to open the door. When
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my Uncle David showed up, he
was wearing a branded grey suit and a
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red silk tie. There were no
hugs or handshakes. My uncle told me
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you were making a good impression.
When I was ten minutes late, I
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didn' t say anything and waited
for us to go to his office with
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air conditioning. But instead he started
a tour of the place. As we
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walked, he went over the rules
to work the night shift at the warehouse.
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The first rule did not forget to
feed Samuel the dog Keeper the dog
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did not let me caress him,
but he stopped grunting and showing his teeth.
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We went through a row of sixteen
carts in different dismantling states for parts.
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Some were just metal skeletons, others
seemed like they could roll out of
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the tank, until my uncle opened
the chest to show me what the engine
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was missing. All parts, from
the plates to the windshields, to the
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specific bolts and screws, were recorded
and stored in the tank that was in
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the center of the place. Every
mechanic in West Nebraska called my uncle when
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they needed a piece. We entered
the section of the warehouse, where the
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cars were crushed. There was a
huge machine painted with a bright yellow.
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That looked like a giant toaster,
but instead of putting in a slice of
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bread you would introduce a cart.
I asked him if I could see him
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in action. My uncle David rode
on a tow truck, impaled an old
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cart and dropped it in the car
area. The walls of the press were
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closed from all sides until the ten- foot car was reduced to a fart
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of steel. The noise of the
metal, cracking and breaking, made me
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frown. The sound was loud.
Really. After smashing the car, my
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Uncle David threw another rule at me. No touching, driving, or turning
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on the car press. If he
tried and realized it, I' d
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get out of here right away.
Then he started to give me a hard
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one around the place, next to
the fence. He told me the next
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rule. While we were walking.
I wasn' t allowed to let anyone
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in after my uncle left for the
day. No junk cars arrived at night
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and office hours were from 6:
00 a m to 8: 00 p
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m, so there was no reason
for anyone to show up. He also
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made it clear that he shouldn'
t let any of my friends or my
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girlfriend stay with me to keep someone
from coming in after hours. My Uncle
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David would close me inside when he
left for the day. Like I told
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you, it was like my own
personal cage, I asked what was going
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on. If anything happened to me
and I needed help. He laughed and
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told me that if I was gross
enough to hurt myself in this job and
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I needed an ambulance, I deserved
to die. Besides, if I really
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needed help, I could call him. Then he turned around and told me
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that he was grappling with petty thieves
who would jump the fence at night and
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take copper parts from their carts,
things like radiators, brake tubes and alternator
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had copper. Turns out Samuel'
s barking was more intimidating than his bite,
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and my Uncle David needed someone on
guard during the night, someone spinning
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around with a flashlight for thieves to
think about. Twice before entering, he
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assured me that he did not want
me to be a hero, although he
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considered me to be half lazy,
he was still family and his sister would
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suffer the consequences if something happened to
me. My uncle David thought that my
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simple presence would drive the thieves away
and if any trouble arose, I should
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call him and he would appear in
minutes. Feeling more relaxed, we'
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re still next to the fence when
I noticed something weird. Every few meters,
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someone had stuck small crosses in the
fence with wire. I counted three
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as we walked along the line and
looking forward. I saw more, I
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had to ask my uncle about it. He told me the workers did it
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by knitting the crosses in the fence. I asked why my uncle kept quiet.
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His mood suddenly changed. He got
evasive almost scared. I asked him
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again and he pointed out four cars
at the far end of the scrapping were
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separated from the others. There were
two minivans and two small edans. They
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had all been in accidents, some
worse than others. Our walk took us
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juss in the middle of them.
He seemed nervous to be there. He
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told me that these were what his
workers called the boned cars that were in
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fatal accidents. It seemed that,
once the police ended up with an accident
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investigation and the insurance company had settled
all the claims, the cars ended up
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here where they would be stripped of
parts. The problem was that employees didn
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' t like working in these vehicles. They felt it was like taking away
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the jewels from a corpse in a
coffin. Their workers thought it was only
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bad luck working on these cars.
There were also some incidents. He said
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that some of his workers had suffered
their own accidents after working in the cars.
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Again, my uncle was being lazy
and I wanted clear answers. He
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explained that one of his workers was
crushed by an old boner a few months
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ago and or or another use lost
his hand after accidentally cutting it off by
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taking pieces from another. That'
s why the employees started putting crucifixes on
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the fences. It was to keep
the bad aura inside the scrapping. They
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didn' t want anything to follow
him home. My uncle thought his workers
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were too superstitious, but he allowed
me to look back at the four boners.
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Suddenly I felt that I was standing
in a royal cemetery and each of
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these cars was a giant metal tomb. I asked my uncle about them how
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many people lost their lives there and
how, but he said he didn'
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t know and didn' t want
to know. Nothing would change if I
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knew the details of the accidents that
the cars brought here. His job was
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to get rid of them and that' s what his feet were doing,
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crawling and his voice. Aspera betrayed
his uneasiness. I felt something in that
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place, too. It wasn'
t right. I noticed that three of
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the four boners weren' t completely
wrecked. They didn' t seem to
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have been in any major accident.
They had dented panels and one had the
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roof severely crushed, but nothing fatal, although the most da blue had his
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windshield moved with a hole in the
middle my mind imagined the body of someone
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thrown forward his head crashing into the
glass. I was wondering if there were
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any pieces of hair still stuck in
the fragments. A chill ran through my
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spine while I was thinking about it. The only car that seemed to have
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been smashed to death was a black
miniban. It was mainly a wrinkled pile
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of steel. Although the door on
the driver' s side was still attached
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and it seemed that it could be
opened. The rest of the car was
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just metal folds for a moment I
thought the car had blood leaking, but
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I realized it was just rust leaking
from its bottom. My uncle explained the
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last rule this area, like the
car crusher, was off limits. He
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said something about insurance problems with these
cars and there was no need for me
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to worry about this scrapping section.
When I was doing my night rounds,
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that was good for me. The
area gave me the creeps. My Uncle
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David walked back to his office.
I was done showing myself around. I
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kept hanging him up. A few
steps back. I heard a noise,
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a deaf sound. I turned around
to look at the boners and for a
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moment I thought I saw a young
woman in the blues. Her blond hair
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was tangled her white face black eyes. I was hitting the glass like I
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was trying to get my attention.
Right then. Samuel barked and then let
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go of a howl. I turned
around to see the dog howling and barking
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like he was warning me. When
I looked at the massade again, the
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face in the car was gone.
I approached my uncle, a little restless,
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but convinced that the whole issue of
death was affecting me. Samuel stopped
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barking, which also calmed things.
I saw my uncle walk out the door,
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park his car and go back to
the fence. He took out the
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keys and officially locked me up at
night. He made a sign with his
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hand and left a trail of dust
behind his car. As he was leaving,
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when Samuel approached me. I realized
I wasn' t completely alone.
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I walked into the office with air
conditioning and grabbed some dog food from the
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sack and poured it into Samuel'
s bowl near my uncle' s desk.
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He ate it like he wasn'
t fed in a week. Although
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I felt bad about it, I
had to get Samuel out of the office
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to play his role as a watchdog. After dinner. It took a bit
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to persuade him. I had to
use another bowl of food to get him
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out the door. I wrote down
the time it was seven thirty. I
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had another hour before sunset, when
I' d have to make my first
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rounds for scrapping. I had my
feet up and I was playing some game
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on my phone. When Samuel started
barking. It was guttural, snoring and
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angry. I opened the door and
was hit by heat. It was still
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a scorching heat. Even when the
sun was about to hide. I followed
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the sound of Samuel' s barking
and among his whining I heard voices.
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I couldn' t understand what they
were saying, but at least there were
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two people screaming. I ran down
the right edge of the fence and found
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the dog, looking at the barrier
and barking nonstop, I let him know
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that everything was fine and after a
minute he got tired and stopped. There
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was no one in sight, but
there was a blanket on the other side
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of the fence and in the dust
there were traces. It seemed like someone
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was planning to climb the fence and
throw the blanket over the barbed wire to
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get into the scrapping. Suddenly I
felt very protective of my uncle' s
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place. I screamed at the empty
landscape on the other side of the fence
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that would call the police. I
stayed there for a good five minutes,
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just watching, letting him know that
someone was taking care of the place.
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Samuel gave up before me. Heading
to the office and crawling back, I
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decided that at least for the next
hour, more or less, I should
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pass it on the small outer porch
of the office. There was a metal
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rocker to sit on while I was
swinging back and forth, while I was
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dark with the old dog at my
feet, I didn' t get my
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phone out. I just sat there
and watched the day happen at night.
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Then I heard the voices. Again
I was surprised that Samuel didn' t
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let go of a bark. Instead, he aired a weird sound like he
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was complaining. When I looked down
at him, he seemed to shrink into
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a tight ball with his tail tucked
under his hind legs. I assumed the
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robbers had returned to get their blanket
back and could try another attempted robbery.
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I grabbed the flashlight my uncle gave
me and went back to the fence.
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I focused my light on the fence
and shouted that the police were on their
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way, but the voices didn'
t stop. My flashlight found the blanket
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exactly where it was when Samuel and
I saw it in the afternoon. Then
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I realized that the voices did not
come from outside the scrap, but from
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within. Maybe they' d already
jumped the fence I turned around trying to
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find the voices. My light fell
on the bonnets. The sound came from
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one of those cars. It was
the green Chevicavalier that had the roof crushed.
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The little light was on inside the
car and the voices came from there
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as much as I didn' t
want to slowly approach the car. Then
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I realized that the voices were talking
about sports chattering about how the Nebraska football
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team would do that fall. It
was the local sports program. The radio
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in the car had gone off somehow. I fought my fear. It was
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probably just a short circuit, but
I also wondered if it could be the
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thieves who were trying to get the
radio out. I was about to dial
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my uncle' s number, but
I thought I should at least make sure
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so I took a few more steps
towards the car until I got a good
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look inside. There was no one
there. Without realizing it, I had
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walked to the green chevy. The
radio voices kept talking and I inspected the
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interior of the car and made sure
there was no one there. I leaned
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down to look through the back window
and confirmed that there was no body hidden
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in the back seat or under the
board. It was just me and the
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green che I saw. I reached
the door on the driver' s side
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and pulled him over. Indeed,
the board was illuminated and the radio was
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on. I sat in the driver' s seat having to shrink because of
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the crushed ceiling and then reached the
radio' s day to turn it off.
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That' s when the car door
slammed shut on its own. The
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flashlight fell out of my hand and
landed outside the car. I tried to
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push the door to open it,
but it didn' t move. I
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couldn' t help but think about
the face of the blonde woman I thought
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I saw in the other boned.
I started panicking. I knocked on the
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door with all my weight, but
it didn' t move. Then I
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reached the passenger' s side and
tried that door. Again, my hands
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spread towards the steering wheel. I
grabbed him frustrated, shaking him and screaming
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as my palms held the wheel.
Everything went black. There was in the
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dark a black void like ink and
then, as fast as that happened.
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There was a light. I wasn' t sitting in the junk car,
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but I was driving him down a
road. The radio was on. The
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guys in the sport were chattering again, but the players they were talking about
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were from two years ago. The
lampposts passed quickly. I looked down at
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the speedometer, and I saw it
going 100 miles an hour. Suddenly,
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my right hand came down and pressed
a button on the radio, switching the
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radio guys' station to music and
I felt my foot pressing the accelerator.
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A blurry sign from the highway passed
was for the exit on Route eighty-
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eight. I knew where I was
heading east, towards Lincoln. I felt
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the adrenaline rushing through my body my
hands tightened the leather steering wheel harder.
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I let my gaze turn away from
the road to the rearview mirror to take
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a look at myself. But it
wasn' t me. He was a
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40- year- old man,
the driver of Chevy, the driver who
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died right then. A deer jumped
on the road. I turned the steering
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wheel completely to the left to avoid
hitting it, but the impulse of the
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car made it move forward. I
started going around and then I kept going
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around. I counted eight flips and
at the last turn my skull hit the
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roof of the car and felt my
neck break. I heard it too.
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A loud snap caused my head to
fall forward by swinging down. It was
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like a head on a rag doll, useless neck bones and muscles. My
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eyelids blinked and then I let go. The steering wheel was back in the
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guase sitting on the Chevy. Samuel
was standing in front of the car.
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My hands went to my neck.
Everything was well nothing broken, my heart
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was pounding and every nerve in my
body seemed electrified. For a second,
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I thought I' d take the
wheel again, but I wondered if my
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body could handle another round of what
had just happened. I was also afraid
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that I would come back. Maybe
there was a chance he wouldn' t
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go back to scrapping. Instead,
I reached the handle of the car door,
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pushed it and opened it. I
could barely stand up. When I
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looked outside, I noticed the sky
was lighting up. I pulled my phone
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out of my pocket and saw it
was almost dawn, which I thought only
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took a few moments. It had
been hours. My uncle would be arriving
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soon. I staggered back to the
office with Samuel by my side. By
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letting me fall into the rocking chair, I tried to make sense of what
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had happened, but I really couldn' t. I thought maybe I hit
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my head in the door frame when
I went to turn off the radio and
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hallucinated everything, but it was too
real. I know what happened. My
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uncle' s car stopped at the
door. I was still a little dazed.
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When I gave him the summary of
the night, I informed my uncle
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about the attempted robbery and walked with
him as far as the blanket was still
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outside the fence managed to hit me
hard on the back and let me know
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that it was already a valuable hire
on my way home that morning. All
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I could think about as I walked
the road was what happened in the car.
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The Cheve at full speed reproduced over
and over again the combination of fear
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and emotion kept running through my system. I was counting the minutes so I
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could go back and try the other
boned ones and see what would happen.
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I got to sleep a few hours
before my brother dropped me off at the
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youth detention center to do my community
service. I' ve been distracted all
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day. I practically ran about two
kilometers from my home to my uncle'
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s place. That afternoon, right
at the time, a car was coming
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at full speed along the road faster
than usual. I stopped and watched him
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approach. It was a few blocks
away and it was hard to see exactly
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what kind of car it was.
But the music that sounded from the radio
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of the car made me stop and
watch unbelieving. It was the green car,
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the two- door chev. The
stench of the night before was drifting
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from his lane towards me. Now
I could see the driver. He was
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the same man. His head face
down and swinging from his broken neck through
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his chest like a pendulum. His
eyes were fixed on me and he smiled
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I came out of the moment and
ran to the main gate of the scrapping.
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My feet slipped on the loose gravel. The music got louder. I
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didn' t want to turn the
wheels of the car hit the gravel road.
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It was right behind me I reached
and grabbed the fence and the car
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disappeared. I turned around to see
an empty road. There wasn' t
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even a cloud of dust. At
that moment. My uncle left his office
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and shouted a greeting. I gave
him a half- healing while he was
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still trying to process what had just
happened. My back was wet with sweat
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and I was struggling to catch my
breath, while my uncle was walking to
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let me in. Of course,
I couldn' t tell him what had
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just happened. No sane person would
understand. My uncle left earlier than the
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night before, as he didn'
t have to go over the rules that
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he had already broken, even after
what happened earlier on the road. I
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still wanted to experience being in another
bone. The curiosity was overwhelming. I
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pulled the metal rocking chair from the
office porch and sat right in the middle
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of the creepy cars. Samuel didn' t follow me. He still seemed
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uncomfortable with that scrapping section and stayed
in the office. I felt crazy and
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that made me anxious. I'
ve never been addicted to any drugs in
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my life, but this is what
an addict should feel waiting for his next
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dose. I was trying to decide
which car to try. My eyes continued
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to look at the black miniba,
which was almost shattered for some reason.
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I felt I had to wait until
the sun set as if it were part
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of the ritual. I looked over
my shoulder and the sun was already about
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to hide. It wasn' t
dark yet, so I waited for the
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black minivan door to squeal on its
own. I had read my mind somehow.
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These cars were now connected to my
thoughts. I slipped into the driver
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' s seat. I had to
see myself squeeze barely able to sit down,
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as the passenger side and ceiling were
crushed. I sat down and then
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the door closed by itself. There
was a moment of doubt, a sense
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that this was wrong, but the
overwhelming desire to know about the other boned
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ones overcame everything. My hands found
the steering wheel, there was a flash
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of black and then I was driving
in the minivan. It was a rainy,
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wet afternoon. I looked at the
radio clock and blinked at three o
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' clock in the afternoon. I
couldn' t locate the highway I was
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on. It was large three lanes
in both directions. Probably one of the
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interstate highways. My eyes went down
to the speedometer. It recorded a reasonable
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speed of one hundred and five kilometers
per hour. The rain hit the windshield
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harder. I put them up a
little bit more for breezes, but they
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didn' t do much to clear
the glass. There was a thunderstorm and
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then the highway lit up when lightning
struck the nearby ground. I wanted to
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see who it was. So I
took a look at the rearview mirror and
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saw a woman with red hair under
a baseball cap. I was probably about
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30 years old and smiled to see
if the woman was smiling too, but
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then I saw something that made that
smile go away. In the rearview mirror
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I saw not only the woman,
but also a large 18- wheel truck
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blinking with its lights to get me
out of the lane. I didn'
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t want to experience this. I
tried to let go of the wheel,
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but I couldn' t. It
was like my hands were welded behind the
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wheel. The car wasn' t
gonna let me out. I tried to
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close my eyes, but I couldn' t do that either. Suddenly,
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I was no longer expecting a euphoric
travel experience. My arm muscles hurt.
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As I struggled to free my hands. I saw the truck fast approaching from
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behind in the rearview mirror, but
she heard. I didn' t turn
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on the intermission or change lanes.
The truck accelerated almost on top of her
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or me we were one and the
same thing I screamed hoping to somehow impact
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the driver to move, to do
something, to try to change what was
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about to happen, but I knew
I couldn' t. My sight.
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It passed from the rearview mirror to
the windshield through the water mist. I
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could see the brake lights. Someone
stopped in front. I stepped on the
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brakes slowing down, but the truck
behind me didn' t. He hit
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me with the strength of a thousand
mallets. Embarrassing me against the truck stopped
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right ahead. Glasses and pieces of
metal fell on me. The airbags opened
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up and then everything went dark again. My hands got loose from the steering
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wheel I fell out of the mini
van My face hit the ground I crawled
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crawling from the car. When I
was about twenty feet in the day,
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I turned around and saw the door
shut. My legs felt like gelatin as
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I staggered and headed back inside the
office. I collapsed in the chair by
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the desk and my fingers turned off. The air conditioner switch was already shaking.
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The next five hours I spent looking
at myself in a mirror over a
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gray filing cabinet. The horrible clash
of the miniban repeated itself in my brain.
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My uncle' s car came into
the office and pulled me out of
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my trance. My uncle asked if
everything was okay. As I walked past
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him to the front door. I
screamed that nothing happened and that I would
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see him later on the way home. I was nervous. My eyes scoured
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the road in search of the green
che I saw or the black miniba.
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Every car that approached made me run
to the corner and hide waiting for the
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vehicle to pass before walking again.
What should have been a twenty- five
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- minute walk. It took almost
an hour. When I finally got home,
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my mother wanted to know what was
going on. I couldn' t
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hide the pale state of shock on
my face. I told him it was
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nothing, just the lack of sleep
and let my bed absorb me. When
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I got to my room, the
alarm woke me up somehow. I managed
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to grab a few hours of sleep
before heading to my teaching job. My
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brother texted me that I was outside
and ready to take me downtown. I
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ate a banana and was about to
go out the front door. When I
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took a look at our entrance,
there was a black miniba parked in it,
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the one that had no damage and
was driving. The night before I
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stopped and went to the front window
and looked through the blinds. My brother
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' s car was on the street
waiting for me and the minibana was at
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the entrance. I took a step
back blinking a few times trying to clear
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up any craziness that might have slipped
into my mind. Before you look out
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the window. I texted my brother
again and asked him if there was a
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van in our driveway. He answered
me to stop joking if I didn'
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t want to be late, took
a step towards the window and looked again.
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The redhead woman had her face pressed
against the window. His eyes were
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black spheres. As he looked at
me, I got another message saying we
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' ll take you there. The
phone dropped out of my hands. There
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was a sound from another message.
I picked up the phone terrified by what
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I could read, but it was
just my brother. Giving me a final
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warning, I sent him a message
telling him that I was not feeling well
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and that I was going to miss
my community service. That day I heard
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him walking away. When I looked
out the front window, the van was
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gone, too. I went back
to bed, but I couldn' t
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sleep. I had the urge again, the strange urge that I needed to
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sit in one of the scorched.
I can' t explain it, but
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it was useless to fight the impulse
Something was forcing me to go back to
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the junkyard. All I knew was
that I couldn' t resist the desire
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to get into another bone. I
don' t remember well when I left
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my house and walked down the road
to my uncle' s place, when
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he let me in the door,
I was a little irritable. My uncle
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wanted to know why the rocking chair
was in the middle of the bony.
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I told him it wasn' t
me, which just upset him. Plus,
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I couldn' t have been someone
else and he told me to remember
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the rules. I just shrugged my
shoulders and told him I' d keep
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an eye on the thieves. That
night, my uncle issued a warning to
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do exactly what he was paying me
for and nothing else. Then he left
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I left Samuel on the porch of
the office. I was snuggled near the
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rocking chair. Sitting on the ground
in the middle of the bone. I
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felt my attention in the bluemost,
the car that caught my attention first,
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the one that had the ghostly face
of a woman who looked at me the
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first day. The door opened.
I heard Samuel complain and I lowered my
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head and crouched into the blue car, the one with a hole in the
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windshield. The door closed with a
strong blow. I looked around the inside.
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There was no real damage, the
air bag had been activated and all
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the glass on the board gauges was
shattered. But otherwise, the car didn
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' t seem to be in a
fatal accident. My hands rested on the
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wheel and then my fingers rolled around
him. A black curtain rolled all over
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and then was driving in the dark. It was night. He could have
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been anywhere. There were no signs
of buildings, no road marshals. It
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was a two- lane road that
went through a particular place. There were
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no lampposts. The only light came
from my headlights. I looked in the
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rearview mirror to see my face.
It was the same one I saw in
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the back window as I was walking
away from the boners, but this time
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it wasn' t a corpse.
Instead, she was a twenty- year
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- old girl with blond hair and
pale blue eyes. A little teddy unicorn
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hung from the mirror. The radio
was on, it wasn' t raining,
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it wasn' t speeding. For
a moment everything seemed to be fine.
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Then the Masda lighthouses picked up something
later. On the right side of
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the road there was a small white
car with the hood up. I felt
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that I was playing the brake by
slowing down behind the damaged vehicle. Then
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something strange happened, a new twist
in the experience of the boners. We
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both got out of the car.
Now standing around we looked around we loved
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the head in the car there was
no one there. Then I heard the
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Rubia driver scream if anyone needed help. There was no answer. Then we
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took our phone and took a picture
of the car and its license plate was
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back behind the wheel and we walked
away from the white car. I was
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about to fasten my seat belt when
I took a last look at the broken
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little white car in the rearview mirror, but instead of the car we saw
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someone sitting in the back seat,
a man with a red mask and reflective
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sunglasses. There was a scream of
her scream and then I felt a leather
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belt around my neck. Squeezing hard, I couldn' t breathe. Rigid
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leather sank into my skin. I
had to drop the steering wheel to try
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to slip my fingers under the belt
and gain some space to vacuum a little.
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The car roamed the road from left
to right, my legs stretched beating
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the dashboard. My heels cracked the
meter' s glass. My eyes met
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again. The rearview mirror was able
to see the man wearing a mask and
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sunglasses leaning over the front seat,
I saw a metal mile marker on the
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left side of the road. With
all my strength I stretched my foot to
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hit the throttle and grabbed the wheel. I gave him everything and accelerated to
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the sign. The man in a
ski mask let go of his belt and
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crouched behind the seats. Just when
we hit the steel pole. The air
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bag exploded. Then his voice opened
through the sound of the girl' s
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last gasps. Everything went black for
a moment and then I was back in
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the Jadeé junkyard by air. As
I fell out of the car, I
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felt something damp on my forehead.
My hand went up and when I pulled
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it back, I was in the
blood, my blood. I also felt
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that my neck had been tightened with
a rope. That was it. I
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wasn' t just experiencing the deaths
of other people I almost died This time
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I was about to dawn and my
uncle would be there soon, but I
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didn' t care. I was
officially resigning and wanted to get out of
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the junkyard. Now I couldn'
t spend another minute in that place.
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I marched to the office, opened
the door and started looting the room,
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looking for another key to leave.
I searched the filing cabinet. Then I
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opened all the drawers in my uncle' s desk. My hand found the
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knob of the last drawer on the
bottom and I opened it in the drawer.
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There was a scab mask, a
leather belt, and reflective sunglasses.
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The room started to spin I took
a step back I would faint if I
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didn' t sit the office door
opened my uncle' s gaze met mine.
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Then his eyes went to the desk
and open drawer. I pulled back
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a little bit impressed with fear and
trying to disguise. I looked at a
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face of astonishment and nervousness in my
uncle and asked me if that was what
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I was doing, to which I
quickly told him nothing. I was just
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looking for something to write with,
some pen or pencil and it got interesting
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to me. That red mask was
the first thing that came to my mind,
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for at that moment I felt a
strong terror when I discovered that the
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one who had killed the woman was
my own uncle. He just stared at
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me with a very nervous face and
told me that he was fine, that
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they had given it to him a
long time ago and that he only kept
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it there. I wanted to retire
from there as soon as possible, but
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my uncle stopped me the truth that
at that moment I felt a horrible terror.
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I thought you realized that you knew
your dark secret that you were giving
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me. He asked me if anything
new had happened during the night, to
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which a little bit sharp and nervous
I said no. Nothing had happened.
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I pulled out of the office and
headed fast for the exit. Although I
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wanted to run, I had to
keep hiding, because I didn' t
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want to look suspicious all the way
home I went thinking about everything that had
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happened. I felt very overwhelmed,
I no longer knew if what had happened
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was real or product of my imagination. I got home, it hurt my
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head to think so much. I
felt very tired and sleepy and without realizing
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it, I fell asleep the alarm
woke me up, something that startled me
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quite. I wasn' t comfortable
anymore, I didn' t want to
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go to work with my uncle that
night. I didn' t go to
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community service again. Again with the
excuse of being sick. I began to
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investigate a little about being able to
give peace to the spirits who were in
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the bonnets. The only way to
do that was with a mass and blessing
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the cars, but I didn'
t know how to do any of that,
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so I decided to take a father
to bless them. I knew I
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couldn' t get a father into
the place without my uncle finding out,
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so I had to confess that at
night I had noticed things, weird things
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out of our understanding. I called
him that same moment I didn' t
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tell him exactly what I lived.
I lied to him I just told him
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I was looking at shadows and listening
to weird noises that weren' t anybody
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' s. He just made fun
of me. He told me he was
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a fearsome worker, but he let
me take a father to bless the cars,
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if that made me feel good and
didn' t distract me from work.
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After a few hours, I was
able to convince a father that very
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afternoon that, right on my way
to work, he would bless the cars
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before my uncle closed everything and left
me inside the place. I was already
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there. It was close enough for
my uncle to close everything. The father
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took a few minutes to arrive.
I was just looking at my uncle'
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s face, kind of frustrated and
annoying. I can' t deny that
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I was still afraid to be close
to him, but I knew he wouldn
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' t do anything to me,
because he had no idea he was a
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murderer. When the father arrived,
I told him where the cars were.
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The father said a few prayers to
each car and threw holy water at them
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all. While my uncle watched carefully. I began to think that he did
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believe that something was going on with
the cars, because I and his workers
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experienced strange things with them, but
only pretended to be skeptical. The father
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finished and retired. My uncle locked
me in the place again saying luck to
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me. While he was getting in
his car. There was only silence.
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I stayed there and for a moment
and realized that each of the cars I
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was in was leading me into this
to discover that my uncle was a murderer,
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but I couldn' t accuse him. I didn' t have any
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evidence and mention any kind of thing
related to that. Maybe I could get
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into trouble with him and now I
would have reason to hurt myself or,
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worse, kill myself. I couldn' t do much about it. I
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think all I could do was take
them to the father to try to give
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those spirits peace. That night.
I didn' t expect any kind of
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activity, but I didn' t. Soon after my uncle left, I
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went into the office. I really
wanted to see if the mask was there,
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but I didn' t want to
do it in case I had hidden
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some camera waiting to catch myself again
looking at the mask, I didn'
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t want to risk it anymore.
It gave me too much insecurity, as
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the sun hid and the uz absolute
darkness fell. While I was in the
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office with Samuel, this time I
did let him in, as I wanted
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to feel accompanied. He was still
terrified of what he lived for. Samuel
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was lying down and I watched him
lift his head up quickly and stop his
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ears. His tail wafted very little
while he was hiding it. After seeing
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Samuel I heard a loud noise like
static. I left immediately with the flashlight
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and the noise came from the blue
massade. The radio was on again,
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but it was just a static that
made strange noises. I didn' t
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want to get near the truth that
I didn' t have the courage to
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do it anymore. I thought nothing
would happen anymore, but I understood that
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the woman who killed my uncle would
not rest in peace and would still cling
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to this world until justice was done. I didn' t go to the
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car. I just went back to
the office with Samuel and I stayed there.
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I spent the whole night. There, after a few hours, since
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my uncle arrived, I told him
I wouldn' t work for him.
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I told him I was getting pretty
tired working at night. He rebuked me
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by saying that I had told him
in time that if I could stay a
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few more nights in what I found
some candlelight to which I refused, I
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no longer wanted to spend one more
night there, knowing that a sorry soul
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would remain there every night and that
my uncle was the cause of that spirit
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not leaving this world. I couldn' t see my uncle anymore. In
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the same way I continued with my
community service. I had to submit a
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prescription to avoid an arrest, although
I no longer wanted to cross words with
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my uncle. The last time I
spoke to him was to ask him if
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he could give me or sell Samuel, with the excuse that I had become
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quite fond of him, because I
knew I was not having a good time.
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There at night I was dying of
fear. I had him mistreated by
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my uncle. He refused to give
it to me, for he told me
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it would be good company for the
new guard who was working there, but
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after insisting so much, he ended
up selling it to me. Now I
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feel like it' s very quiet, without being afraid every night or suffering
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from hunger. I' m not
talking to my uncle anymore. I don
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' t attend family reunions much from
my mother' s family, more because
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I didn' t see that killer' s face. I feel a little
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powerless not being able to do anything
to help that soul in sorrow and not
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be able to do anything about it
with my uncle. That' s already
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out of my league. Tale written
and adapted by Ramiro. Contreras








