God's Hands Get Slippery Too (720 hits)
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Submitted by Espo (View user info) at 2005-08-24 13:06:59 EDT
"What the hell do you mean you're not coming to bed, it's almost 2:30 in the morning!" Stacey growled at me, swaying precariously on the spiral staircase.
The drink had clearly infested her eyesight and judgement, as I could tell by looking at my watch that it was more like 3:30, not 2:30, but that's not important. What was important was the fact that I needed to get this sorry excuse for a hook-up off my back and into bed.
"Look sweety, I'm just going to go downstairs and make sure the door are locked and everything, and then I'll be right up, ok?" The glossy stare sent back at me was completely void of any recognition - the neurons were definitely not shooting in any of the right directions tonight. "So why don't you just hop up the stairs and I'll be up in 2 minutes," I continued. "Ok, sweety?"
Finally, she seemed to comprehend the fact that she was standing half naked in a stairwell and was in need of a bed, so she made a slow about-face and ping-ponged her way up the spiral staircase.
Christ, I thought, I hope she doesn't fall over the banister on the way up. How the hell would I explain that mess? Blood all over, bones shattered, and that "thud"...it's all in God's hands, I suppose. Hope he hasn't been using lube lately.
The truth of the matter is that I could give a damn about the lights or locking the doors. Hell, at this point, I hoped she was already passed out in my room and had no desire to hook up with her.
I had been waiting all night long to step outside and have a cigarette, but that leech-woman Stacey had been super-glued to my arm for the last 6 hours and now that she was sufficiently liquored up, I could finally dupe her into leaving me alone for a few minutes and finally enjoy a God damn cigarette.
After checking the front door, I walked through the large, paneled living room and walked to the back door, lighter in hand. But before stepping through the door and into the cool night air, I noticed the outline of two rather large figures through the window.
Oh fuck. This cannot be good. Mammoth behemoths clad in black and ski-masks did not usually send comforting vibes in my direction.
Yet there they were, ten feet away, with two inches of pine separating me from these thugs. And here I was, armed with a lighter and a half-full pack of Lucky Stripes. Clearly I was slightly under-armed when pitted against the two Glocks tucked into their belts.
While I stood trying to make a decision like a 17-year old girl at an H&M sale, the sound of cracking wood, followed shortly by the cracking of bones, and half a breath after that, a sickening "thud" of flesh on flooring made my decision for me.
I think my first words were something like, "Gentle fucking Jesus" but I can't be quite sure, as I was more concerned with racing back to the stairs, only to find the pool of leather-black blood oozing quite swiftly from underneath Stacey's mangled corpse.
God's hands indeed. Looks like she was a little soapy tonight, slipped right through His fingers and down the middle of three flights of spiral stairs.
I heard the slam of the back door and four Timberland-covered feet making their way towards me.
"Shit, nigga. Now all's we gotta do is cap this one white-boy instead of him and his bitch."
Apparently the two thugs from outside the back door had heard the fall and had decided to join me in the preemptory viewing of the body.
"Looks ta me like she took quite a spill." Said the other, slightly smaller black man.
"Hell yes. Three flights, nigga." Added the other.
I guess if you see dead people on a daily basis, dead white girls falling three flights doesn't really irk you. I, however, was not a hired thug, didn't work for the mob, had never been in a war. Hell, the most killing I had ever scene was back in college when my buddies and I went to Cancun and bet on those cockfights.
Unconsciously, I reached for my pack of Lucky Stripes and quickly lit one. The two thugs standing behind me flinched for a second, but when they realized what I was reaching for, started laughing.
"Hell, this boy's a smoker!"
"You smoke, do you little man?"
That being the first time they had spoken to me directly, I turned and with my eyes deadlocked on the floor, spoke: "Yeah...a little."
"Well, fuck. God knows this be the time to be smoking. Fuck, your girl just fucking died."
"Hell yes, but if you be smoking, you SHOULD be smokin' the chronic, ya'naw I mean?" and with that he pulled out what looked like a small, twisty cigar from his front pocket.
"Yeah...we was gonna save this shit for after we smoked your ass and stole all y'all's shit, but on account of this bitch dying, I figure it's the least we can do." He said, taking the lighter from my hand and sparked the blunt, the smoke twisting and torquing around the slowly burning tip.
And there I was, sitting on same steps I had been on just 20 minutes ago, smoking a blunt with the two men who had planned on robbing and killing me just minutes before, and Stacey dead on the floor not 10 feet away.
Too scared to object, too confused to talk, and too upset to care.
Maybe it was Stacey's death, or maybe it was the weed, but whatever it was, from that point I on strayed from the well-traveled path of life, and veered off into the dark woods and unmapped trails of decadence...
To Be Continued....
User Reviews
Submitted by tinactin (user info) at 2005-08-24 19:20:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2005-08-24 16:15:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
a little incoherent, but I liked it.
Submitted by ess-arr (user info) at 2005-08-24 15:28:57 EDT (#)
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Let's go Expos!, errr... Espo!
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2005-08-24 15:16:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
not bad
Submitted by espo (user info) at 2005-08-24 14:55:55 EDT (#)
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I've been away for a while, but I have still been reading some of my favorite authors to keep up on the good stuff. I should hopefully be making more appearances in the fall, and I'll try and hurry up with the sequel. Thanks for all the comments, guys.
-espo
Submitted by jack11058 (user info) at 2005-08-24 14:55:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
-1 for "Lucky Stripes". striKes my man.
Submitted by Orla (user info) at 2005-08-24 14:48:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by JMG114 (user info) at 2005-08-24 13:20:56 (#)
Ranking: 2
Reminds me a bit of Albert Camus's writing. I liked this better.
Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2005-08-24 14:33:16 EDT (#)
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i'm interested.
Submitted by Mike00295 (user info) at 2005-08-24 14:22:23 EDT (#)
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Good Post.
Submitted by Average_Dan (user info) at 2005-08-24 14:19:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Well written. +2
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2005-08-24 14:04:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Murdering thugs decide to share a joint with you because your girl fell down the steps?
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2005-08-24 14:02:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I enjoyed this thoroughly
Submitted by spedmonkey (user info) at 2005-08-24 13:56:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Whoa, it's you!
Submitted by Dead_0hi0_Sky (user info) at 2005-08-24 13:50:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
pretty cool.
hurry up on the sequel.
Submitted by RamJetMax (user info) at 2005-08-24 13:50:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
meh
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2005-08-24 13:47:09 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-08-24 13:08:09 (#)
Ranking: 2
Brand new Shlongy!
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If I see that on ONE MORE POST I am going to neuter myself.
Oh, nice post, BTW.
Submitted by AlexorGM (user info) at 2005-08-24 13:42:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
wow.
Submitted by joedaddy (user info) at 2005-08-24 13:36:50 EDT (#)
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Old money returns without the attitude.
Good story.
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2005-08-24 13:32:47 EDT (#)
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hey motherfucker.
whats up?
Submitted by ruthless (user info) at 2005-08-24 13:30:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Interesting.
I love the title.
Submitted by RyuFu (user info) at 2005-08-24 13:28:41 EDT (#)
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It's been a while!
Submitted by Yes (user info) at 2005-08-24 13:26:36 EDT (#)
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good stuff. keep going.
Submitted by Barnymeinhoff (user info) at 2005-08-24 13:26:15 EDT (#)
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actually fuck the no comment, best thing i have read here so far....not that thats saying much.
Submitted by Barnymeinhoff (user info) at 2005-08-24 13:25:07 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Mister (user info) at 2005-08-24 13:23:08 EDT (#)
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Gooooooooooooooooooooooood shit, man.
Submitted by GodLovesALittleLovin (user info) at 2005-08-24 13:22:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by JMG114 (user info) at 2005-08-24 13:20:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Reminds me a bit of Albert Camus's writing. I liked this better.
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2005-08-24 13:12:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Whoa...really good.
More!
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-08-24 13:08:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Brand new Shlongy!