Dine In

By Brian J. Jarrett

WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME

After a long road trip, a traveling salesman wants nothing more than a burger and fries in a quiet booth at a roadside greasy spoon.

But when a group of twenty-somethings causes a scene, two men take exception.

Problem is, these two aren't ordinary men.

And they aren't about to let things slide.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elegy Publishing, LLC
• Release date: Dec 30, 2014
• ISBN: 9781386586074

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Dine In

a short horror story

Brian J. Jarrett

Copyright © 2014 Brian J. Jarrett

Elegy Publishing, LLC

All rights reserved by the author. No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted by any means without the written consent of the author.

This book is a work of fiction. Any names, people, locales, or events are purely a product of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to any person (either living or dead), to any event, or to any locale is coincidental or used fictitiously.

2014.DI.1.2

For Robert.

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DINE IN

THERE ARE FEW things in life that really cause a person to rethink their convictions. Even fewer things that cause a person to reevaluate their entire life. You know you should eat more vegetables, but you keep ordering that burger and fries. It might end up killing you, but only maybe and that kind of shit usually happens to other people anyway. Or that’s the going thinking, at least.

New Year’s Eve rolls around and out come the resolutions. We’re going to get on that treadmill again. Or we’re going to stick to the budget this year and sock that money away for a vacation come summer. Sometimes we decide we’re going to keep the house clean or organize that messy garage once and for all.

Sometimes we even follow through—for a while. We sign up for a gym membership or we cut back on the spending for a couple of months. We clean up part of the garage. But then we fall right back into the same old habits.

Why? Those habits suit us, I think. We don’t want to admit it, but it’s who we are. Changing our true nature, the things that fundamentally define us, that’s what’s hard. Way hard. And we don’t take to it easily.

I’d never really thought about my convictions, about the stuff I believed in. About what suited me. I went to church with my parents until I moved out and then I dropped down to twice a year—Christmas and Easter—like most other fair-weather types. I didn’t believe in ghosts or fortune tellers and I sure as