The Undertaker Always Rings Twice
That Mr Perkins, he’s still alive. Twenty-four hours later, I seen him opening up the front of his mercantile, like nothing ever happened to him atall.
Damn him and his weak heart.
I drove out of town to blow off some steam. Took my jug of moonshine with me. It never hurt to be prepared for emergencies.
No moon lit the fields I drove through. Halloween. It was always the darkest night of the year.
I liked it that way.
I took a slug of my shine and listened to static on the radio. Made me feel less alone on the road in the dark. The moonshine, not the radio.
I come up to a T-junction and almost plowed through an accident. Just happened. Two big farm trucks. One laid over on its side. The other one was all mangled.
Deadly.
I jumped out of the ambulance and run around the front. One body off in the ditch. Another one stuck through a broke windshield. Two more all knotted up in the middle of the road.
All of them breathing. It was my duty to check.
I hightailed it back to the ambulance. Opened up the back and got out my kit and ran back to those poor people as fast as I could.
When I drove the end of the pick axe through the first man’s head, I don’t even think he noticed.
Much.
Welcome to The Undertaker Series, a set of stories inspired by my father. He told me a story late one night, on our trip to Tennessee. If this is your first visit, please click here to go back to the beginning, click here for the second post and go here for the third post in the story.
Very dark side emerging here.
This guy has always had a dark side.
Yuck! loved it Andra
Your comment made me laugh, Jim.
Yikes! Roy has become Freddy.
Roy would be appalled at what I did with this story. He always tells stories to be funny, and I almost always skew them dark……….
Happy Halloween.
You too, Howard.
Scared poopless. Probably won’t sleep tonight. All of this is to say…. AWESOME post. Clearly your writing is working
But, you have Spiderman the Fireman to protect you………
Oh! He IS desperate to drum up business. Those poor truckers only THOUGHT they were having a bad day.
Leaves me wondering how many times he’s done this………..
I was wondering when something like this would happen. America – land of opportunity.
It’s a sad commentary, on some level……..
I mean, heck, what’s a starving undertaker to do? Love it Andra.
I really like this story, too. But, I’ve got a dark soul, obviously.
From one dark soul to another…what is light without dark… Okay, now I’m quoting “Legends” (one of my favorite movies). I loved it when Darkness says, “I am a part of you all, what is light without dark…” Tim Curry is the best for offbeat acting roles. Anyway…I digress…
Hope you had a great Halloween and you are all safe and sound!
Tim Curry is amazing. I love everything he does.
Sinister turn of events here, Andra. Must be the moonshine, I think!
Moonshine can be wicked. That’s for sure.
This guy should not be driving an ambulance . . . fitted out with a pick axe . . . and moonshine!
Before the advent of EMS, funeral homes often operated ambulance services. I can’t see how that wasn’t considered a conflict of interest, though……..
Ewwwww! I was just starting to like this guy and out comes the pick axe.
Nobody in this thing is exactly normal………
Ewww! Took a turn to the even darker side. I guess I understand but, eek!
I’ve never written any slasher stuff……..there’s always a first to try anything.
Brave soul. I’m impressed. I’ve written creepy stuff, but never slasher.
I didn’t see that one coming, Andra! Couldn’t he have just let them die? Yikes! He is one desperate business man. I’m making that screwed/scrunched up face again while I’m reading. By the next installment I’ll only have one eye open while I peek at your words!
But, they might not’ve died………and then, they wouldn’t be bodies to bury………..
Guess he wanted to axe them a question!
Great ending. I didn’t see it coming. Truthfully I thought he would be the victim of the accident and get hauled off by one of the other guys. For betraying the confidence of a friend….
I’m glad you agree with me that this is the end. MTM wanted me to write another installment, but I think this is a great place to end.
Has to be the end!
Ouch! Somehow I had a feeling he wasn’t going to help.
He helped himself………
True!
Good Lord, Andra… you are getting more gruesome by the day! I loved it!