Zachary Mayberry's Short Stories
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On the night of the Croydon Music Festival in Croydon, England, Tyson is walking on a sidewalk, he is obviously drunk. Ray Willingham and Lester Sunday are walking behind him. Officer Smith and Officer Jones are close behind. Ray reaches in Tyson's back pocket and takes his wallet. He opens the wallet and hands a credit card to Lester, who puts it in his pocket.
“Well, what do we have here? A couple of pick pockets?” says Officer Smith.
Tyson, Ray, and Lester stop walking.
“Give me the wallet,” Officer Smith continued.
Ray hands Officer Smith the wallet.
Officer Jones says, “Hey fat one! Give me the credit card.”
Lester hands Officer Jones the credit card. Offices Jones turns to Tyson and says, “Hey, is this yours?”
“Yes”, says Tyson.
“Well, I am afraid that we will have to keep these as evidence.” says Officer Jones.
Officer Smith and Officer Jones handcuff Ray and Lester.
“Come on, let's go to the police house.” says Officer Smith.
Officer Smith and Officer Jones put Ray and Lester in a police car and take them to a house on a dead end street on the edge of town overlooking the countryside. Officer Jones and Tyson follow in Tyson's car.
Officer Smith and Officer Jones walk the men into a one bedroom house. There is a door directly forward that leads to the bedroom. There is a round dinner table to the left of the door with two chairs. There is one couch in the living room. Officer Smith tells Lester to “Sit on the couch”, and he tells Ray to “Come with me.”
Officer Smith and Ray go into the bedroom. Officer Jones and Tyson go sit at the dinner table. Officer Jones makes two cups of coffee for him and Tyson. Loud paddle noises come from the back room.
Tyson says, “So, is this some kind of English justice.”
Officer Jones says, “Yeah, something like that. Hey, drink up.”
Tyson takes a sip of coffee. Ray leaves the bedroom and looks like he has been crying.
Officer Smith follows, and says to Lester, “You, next.” Lester gets up and walks into the bedroom.
Tyson wakes on a bed, in the bedroom, in the house the next morning. He walks into the living room, but everybody has left. In disbelief, he goes outside, and discovers his car is still there, but the police car is gone. He gets into this car and tries to start it, but it won't start. Then, he notices the smell of gas. He gets out of the car, and sees that his fuel line has been cut. He yells, “Son of a bitch!”
