After The Fire Comes Salvation (standard:mystery, 1093 words)
Author: JKin	Added: Mar 23 2001	Views/Reads: 3879/2298	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
In this story, we meet a young man who reapes the ultimate revenge on his dead-beat father. Then a mysterious hitchiker claims he is his savior. What happens next will leave you astonished

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 toward my car and I went too, hurrying up to my side of the car.  The 
pavement we walked on felt brittle and out of place. The sky remained 
stuffed with darkness, save a speck of starlight every once in while. 
"Well, you see," he said, speaking over the top of my car.  "I tried to 
do something horrible."  I felt a cold deadness creep up within me as 
he said this. But then I became frustrated and annoyed; I didn’t need 
to be laden with some man’s meager confession.   But for some reason, I 
still shaked slightly. 

"I tried killing myself," he said, "but I couldn’t do it."  He looked at
me sadly and breathed slowly while confiding in me. "I planned on 
jumping out in front of  the next car, but then I saw you coming and 
for some reason,  you seemed like a savior in the night, a light of 
faith beacon of hope, and you stopped." I shuddered all over and became 
anxious.   This man needs some help, I thought, and  there wasn’t 
anything I could do.  This ain’t no meager problem, I realized. 
"Listen," I said, "you wait here, and I’ll send someone back for you." 

"But help me please; you stopped and wanted to help me and you saved me
from--." 

"Sir, I I’m in a hurry and I’ve got to go."  I got in my car and he came
over to my side.  I put the car in gear. 

Then he lit a cigarette and took a long restless puff. 

"Please help me," he said.  “I left my kids when they were born," he
said, "and I can’t live with myself now." 


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