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Eddie French

 

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                              A bad day at the office.

 

This is the last time you will hear from me. I would like to be remembered for all of the good times I had here, so I will not contact any of you again.
By now you will all know the reason for this last post.
You will have heard it on the news.
They are outside, waiting.
They shall not have me.
The phone link was set up so they could 'talk' to me, to get me to come out so they can beat on me.
They don't know about the laptop, I fooled them, I still have some go in me yet.
I think it all started the day they took my credit cards from me. That was such a blow, I still went into the shops for a while after that, reaching for my wallet. Then it would hit me, no plastic.
You can't imagine how that feels, to be disenfranchised, ostracised. Welcome to the gutter friend.

Six months ago I was good. I was the best.
Six months ago I had a job. They looked up to me in this place, tried to be like me, earn as much as me
Six months ago I had a wife, the bitch.

They talked behind my back after she walked out on me too.
It just stopped working for me, I don't know why or how but it did. Everything I touched turned sour.
The first one to go bad was the Mexico deal, those bastards! Then the East coast thing. My fault -
My stupid fault they said.
They pointed at me and stared when they thought I couldn't see them.
Stupid fuckers, who's fault is it now?
Who's fault is it that they're lying in great big pools of their own piss and blood.

They shouldn't have treated me like that, laughing behind my back, sticking the knife in on those last couple of deals. I had those fuckers sown up. They did it on purpose, kick you when you're down.
Well I showed them didn't I. I should have taken the shotgun as well. I should have got them all.
Still, five out of eight isn't bad.
Ha...... old Watson shit his pants right there, right there in front of that tart Melinda.
She won't be laughing anymore.

They are shouting for me to come out again.
I'll have to go soon.
Not out there to them, I saved one bullet for the Browning,
I'll be using that one real soon now.

I was good.


Just remember that.

 

I was the best.

 

Wasn't I?

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