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Lady Luck

The dealer blinks, ante is in, and deals the hold across the green. Hoodie, face tattoo, triple XL, shades, Bryan than repeat. Simultaneously everyone looks at there cards than Bryan. A ten and his jack of clubs, not a bad hold. Fact tattoo scales his chips, counting. Hoodie checks. Face tattoo pauses, recounts, and checks. Triple XL checks. Shades looks back down at his hold, sniffs, and checks. Five for five.

The dealer blinks and deals the flop. Seconds felt like hours, so much on the line. Queen of clubs, Ace of hearts, King of clubs. Shades sniffs and shuffles his hold. Face tattoo back to scaling his chips. Hoodie checked. Face tattoo checked. Triple XL struck first.

“Ten k.”

Shades sniffed to this, “Call.”

This is your time kid. “All in,” Bryan said pushing seventy-two thousand into the pot. Sniff. Hoodie pauses and tosses in his cards. Face tattoo counted his chips. He knows he doesn’t have enough. Face tattoo folds.Triple XL, without hesitation, pushes in all his chips of fifty-four thousand. Shades placed the sixty-two thousand aside and paused. No sniff this time? Shades scanned the green and layer he chips down and revealed his a pair of aces, one of spades and one of diamonds. Sweat and dread overtake Triple XL, he didn’t reveal and either did Bryan.

The turn. Hoodie watching everything detectivly. Face tattoo still counting. The blink, and the card. Jack of diamonds. Triple XL shifted in his seat edging ever closer. Sorry buddy. Than the river. The Ace of clubs. Shades triumphantly raised his arm in the air waiting to be crowned. Bryan sniffs.

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Food Fight Ep.2

Lauren

Lauren’s hand straight and steady. Daisy has been in there a long time. This rifle, Ramon, over this lengthy twenty-four hour patrol shift has begun to gain weight. Lauren rests on an ice chest waiting to be relieved. Daisy was supposed to be quick. David pacing  on the KFC rooftop kicking a rock into the ice chest. Focus unbroken, Lauren’s eyes locked on to the Stater Bros. Nobody has left or entered since Daisy, yet, she’s been in there for an hour. Something’s wrong.

David is beyond restless waiting for his sister. David has been apart of the this pack for only a month and he’s been an excellent ally. He has messy light brown hair and dark brown eyes. His snow coat is torn in several places and the same with his jeans. The black combat boots and his p-shooter were the only appeal he up kept.

“Something’s wrong. I’m going in after her,”  David said heading towards the latter.

“She said to let her handle this.”

“Daisy could be in trouble.”

Lauren exhales, “I’ll cover you.” David rushes down the ladder p-shooter strapped to his back. David has never lacked courage, and cliché of course, he’s not the brightest tool in the shed. He would do anything for his sister and that might make him dangerous.

The parking lot was idle. Only a pair of Honda’s unoccupied existed in the waste land. David took to the lot cautiously. He looked like a car in an empty freeway. A horn rang from the east side of the lot followed b a pair of jeeps and shooting. Time to go to work Ramon.  Lauren rested Ramon on the ground and opened the ice chest. An icy pack of bears was selected. Loading Ramon with a bear, a green one with an arm missing, rested him on the ice chest. A bear for Ramon and a bear for me. Sight steadying focusing on the jeep.

Five outlaws exited the jeeps and were shouting at David. It’s impossible to make out the words from here but they weren’t shooting and just talking. David did have his p-shooter in hand and the outlaws all carried citrus blasters. I’ve never seen outlaws talk for so long. Through the scope, one of the outlaws was shaved bald and wore a letter man jacket. Two of them wore identical blue stripped shirt and brown combat boots. Another had a mo-hawk and a tattoo of a dragon on his right shoulder. The last and definitely the leader was talking to David and sported a yellow tank and shutter shades. David began shouting at the leader and the leader didn’t seem happy. Make a move Lauren. The cross-hairs rested on the tip of the mo-hawk and fired. The freed gummy floated and sank into the skull of the outlaw dropping him to the ground. Ten points.

David jumped behind the closest Honda and began firing at the outlaw. Feeding hungry, Ramon ate bear, taking aim at one of the stripped twins and fired. The second bear landed in the back of the head. The force knocked him into the ground face first into the asphalt. Twenty points. David tagged the other twin three times with the p-shooter and he fell. The leader charged  David discharging oranges into the windshield shattering the glass and another into the door leaving a dent the size of a giants fist. The third orange crushed the barrel of David’s p-shooter and turned it into a forsaken hose. Going for thirds, Lauren takes sight on the leader’s yellow tank and fires. The sprinting leather man intercepted this one rushing to finish David and take the glory. That’s at least five points. David rushes the leader to no effect. Out sized and out gunned the leader pushes David aside. With quickness David reaches for leather man jackets citrus blaster and puts a crater into the breast of the leader.

David sets aside the citrus blaster and rushes into Stater Bros. Slight exhale, Lauren takes her first breath since the disagreement. Ramon you fatty, eating all the bears! Stretching out her legs and the lids of her eyes began to sink. The horn blows from the south. Round two.

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Food Fight Ep.1

David

Aisle five was under assault. Spuds the size of alarm clocks crashing into cereal boxes, sprinkling Apple Jacks across the beige quartz flooring. Eggo’s are flying overhead the aisles like bullets. The spud firing pauses. David decides this is his time. Clutching the box of Milk Bones heading towards the exit. Aisle six and seven have collapsed towards produce. Aaron and Kristen should still be around aisle nine near produce for waffles and potatoes. They never stray to far from their ammo. David looks towards the checkout aisles. Cashiers have abandoned their post and left the checkout light on. I need to get Daisy. David steps carefully around the cereal to stay silent and sliding into the deli section. Daisy, was out cold next to a bruised spud. Daisy’s breathing is light and nearly absent, her eyes closed and uninviting, and the flash key clutched in her right fist. David takes the flash key and put its in his jean pocket. Tequila and a lighter lay next to her, well she had a last wish.

Kristen tiptoed passed the aisle six, disk shooter in hand and waffles loaded. Kristen’s brown hair rested on her shoulders. Ripped green hoodie across her right shoulder revealing a bare shoulder-blade. Loose jeans tied at the ankle with the laces of her brown boots. Kristen continues making pace towards aisle five. They think I had the key. Sweat spawned on the brow of Kristen, moving ever slowly. No sight of Aaron. The spud barrage has continued to cease. Kristen greets aisle five slowly and cautiously. David waits for her to be out of sight and tip toes to aisle eight.

“Kris! Did we get that fucker,” Aaron shouted from the produce section.

“He’s not here. His girlfriend neither.”

“She’s behind the meat counter. Finish her and ill look for the other bastard. Were dead if we don’t get that key ya hear.”

Kristen dropped the caution and walked boldly towards the counter. David removed a large bone from the box, waiting. Kristen jumped the counter and ate a Milk Bone to her upper lip. Kristen pulls the trigger in shock. The waffle slices through the air and David’s cheek bone. Blood burst from the gash and falling backwards over Daisy’s unconscious body.

The noise alerts Aaron since potato’s started sailing into the deli department. Kristen stretches for the disk shooter desperately. Finger tips away before David recovers and kicks the shooter away. Spuds crash into the glass containers spreading shards across the floor. David crawls on fours to get to Daisy, she is uncovered and unprotected, and get her to safety. Kristen repeat dives to her disk shooter the second she saw David retreat. Spuds continuosly exploding when they make contact with wall. Kristen crouch walks, disk shooter in hand, hunting Daisy and David. David hides Daisy under a table when Daisy presses the disk gun to the back of David’s head.

“The key. Now.”

“Whatever you say,” David says elbowing the disk shooter into the bottom lip of Kristen, standing her up and launching a waffle right into the ceiling. Blood spews from the head of Kristen, but not from her lips. Kristen falls face first into the cold glass filled tiles revealing the crushed vegetable.

“Kristen. Hey Kristen. Are you okay? Kristen,” Aaron says sprinting from the cashier side to the deli side. Aaron has a gash over his nose that muffles his voice. Aaron has a shaved head while wearing black on black and matching boots with Kristen. David wields the foreign weapon, peers over the counter and catches an unsuspecting Aaron with a waffle in between the brow. Aaron joins Kristen and falls face first into the Apple Jacks. David throws Daisy over his shoulder and head towards the exit.