Pakistan Interrupted

By JM Robison

When Roscoe gets an eerie phone call in Utah traffic, questions - and guns - are raised about his true parentage and why Pakistani terrorists are suddenly interested in a nobody like him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JM Robison
• Release date: Apr 9, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215575888

JM Robison

Hello book worms! Unless you prefer book dragon? I am J.M. Robison. I write fantasy books where heroes don't follow the rules. FUN FACT: I joined the U.S. Army at 17 with the sole goal in mind to learn how to write battle scenes realistically and experience different cultures to add variety to my world building and characters (to date I have visited Italy, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Afghanistan, Qatar, U.A.E., and Kuwait.) PERSONALITY: Introverts unite! Separately, of course. WHAT I LIKE: reading! Because you should never trust an author who does not also read. I crochet. I strive to be chemical-free so I make my own body and household products which are cheap and non-toxic (shampoo, laundry soap, toothpaste, face cleaner, face moisturizer). I love mountain biking and camping. And video games! I'm on discord: Evermore#3394. Recently I started barefoot running...and I love it! WHAT I WANT: Going to become a hermit when I retire. Like, legit live in the mountains hunting, gathering, and building lean-tos.

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PAKISTAN INTERRUPTED

A THRILLER SHORT STORY

By J.M. Robison

Author Copyright 2017 J.M. Robison

Cover Art: By J.M. Robison

Editor: J.M. Robison

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This is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and situations within its pages and places or persons, living or dead, is unintentional and co-incidental.

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Pakistan Interrupted

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Paragon Forgotten, first chapter

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PAKISTAN INTERRUPTED

Roscoe drummed fingers on the hot exterior of his rust-spotted Geo Metro door along with the rock and roll on the radio. The sweltering, dry heat of a Utah summer pounded agonizing fire through all the windows, a breeze trickling in just enough to cool his sunburned arm resting on his open driver window. A new AC unit ran about $1000, but the 2003 hunk-a-junk only scored a worth of $500 even with a tank full of gas. The best he could do was sell it for a laugh. Or donate it to a charity for the poor. Which means he'd end up back with it when he went looking for his next car.

A car to his right signaled to pull in front of him. Before Roscoe could gun it to prevent him from getting in, the car squeezed into the gap.

Rock and roll ended, and Roscoe twisted the radio off when Whitney Houston began screeching about always and love and you, leaving him like Twenty-One Pilots now I just sit in silence where he could fully contemplate his discomfort and irritation and Utah's FUCKING STOP AND GO TRAFFIC BECAUSE EVERY ROAD IN THE WHOLE DAMN STATE DECIDED TO SHUT DOWN FOR CONSTRUCTION—

Blip blip beep! Blip blip beep!

Roscoe scowled at his cracked cellphone screen, the number, 00-0000, glowing on the fluid background. That's...not a number, he thought.

Not today, ISIS. Roscoe punched the red hang up rejection button with his finger. Kids these days will never know the satisfaction of picking up a