Justan Romias
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Change Sucks
There we stood, four twelve year olds, in a circle in the middle of the giant pentagram etched deep into the dirt. Cut off from civilization by a veil of large trees and thick bush, we were convinced there was a traitor among us. Each of us, holding open our now empty backpacks, were attempting to find the face that belies a guilty conscience. Someone took the artifacts that we painstakingly unearthed from this place of oddity and we four were the only ones who had access. The easy money was on Danny, the jovial prankster of the group. However, they say it’s always the quiet ones that you have to watch out for and Seiko was very quiet right now. The longshot was Robert, the go-with-the-flow kind of guy; not one to make or act on devious plans. Then there was me, Jay, the de facto leader of the group. It was my idea, afterall, to explore this area. But before we could hurl any more accusations at one another there came, deep from within the forest, the most bloodcurdling scream any of us had ever heard.
By Justan Romias 4 years ago in Humans
The Damn Box
“God damn…” Christopher Pitt groaned this well worn expression as he picked up his 107th box of the morning and placed it into his delivery truck. It wasn’t a very heavy box, but Chris didn’t have a very good back. Or a very good knee, or very good shoulder. It seems that when Chris hit the big 3-0 five years ago he started to play the real life version of the children’s game Operation. So many unexpected movements would bring about the annoyingly loud buzz and red light in the form of pain. And right now, his back just buzzed.
By Justan Romias 4 years ago in Fiction
