Joyride
By Rik Hunik
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A slightly shorter version of this story originally appeared in “Tales Of The Talisman”,
Volume 1, Issue 2, Sep. 2005. Darien thought he was pretty clever when he stole the Black and Gold Special Edition 1977 Trans Am before Fast Eddy could get to it, but before he can sell it he has to endure a road trip fraught with mishaps. And what's with that license plate?
Rik Hunik
I’m fifty-seven years old. I live in Quesnel, BC, Canada, with my wife Jo and a 17-pound, blue-eyed, white cat named Mister. I mostly build houses and shops to earn a living but I’ve written dozens of stories, including fantasy, horror, sword & sorcery, mystery, humor, erotica, and science fiction, frequently combining genres. Thirty have been published in small press magazines and e-zines, from the 200-word "The Hole" in Ascent Aspirations, to the 10,000-word novelette "Levels" in Buzzy Mag, published in May, 2012. My high score is four stories to Barbaric Yawp, Some of them are available now as ebooks at Smashwords. I also dabble in art and photography. I have over forty of my own paintings hanging in my home. I build inukshuks and sell them in a local craft shop. I take photographs of them and photoshop them into art prints. Contact me at: rikhunik@hotmail.com
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Joyride - Rik Hunik
Joyride
by Rik Hunik
Published by Rik Hunik at Smashwords
Copyright 2013 by Rik Hunik
A slightly shorter version of this story originally appeared in Tales Of The Talisman
,
Volume 1, Issue 2, Sep. 2005
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Chapter 1
The skinny youth with the fake-blond hair pressed the button on the remote control unit and watched in the rear view mirror as the overhead garage door descended. He tossed the unit out the driver's-side window into the long grass near the end of the driveway and unintentionally chirped the tires as he drove away; this muscle car from the seventies had far more power than he was used to.
Thank you Eddy
, he said as he turned right onto Lewis Drive and headed down the hill. He was alone in the car. You sucker.
Darien Fume, pronounced Foomay
by his parents, had dropped that fag French crap when he ran away from home, at age fourteen, right after his parents separated four years ago. He loved fast cars but couldn't afford one, and he didn't get anywhere near as many chances to drive one as he would have liked, and thought he deserved. Sure he stole a couple of cars a month, but nothing like this, a monster from a lost era.
He wasn't even supposed to be the guy stealing this car; he'd scooped this job from his friend, and sometimes partner-in-crime, Fast Eddy.
Eddy had run into him that morning in the bar at the Cariboo Hotel, and he couldn't help bragging