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    Wheels

    By Top Writers Block

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    Wheels are meant to turn, but what if they don't? Sometimes wheels take us to somewhere we'd rather not be. Each of these nine stories is written around wheels and they are sometimes not what you would expect.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTop Writers Block
    Release dateJun 30, 2014
    ISBN9781310208584
    Wheels
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    Top Writers Block

    Top Writers Block is a diverse and eclectic group of talented writers who decided to write stories together - just for the fun of it! We are happy to announce that authors proceeds have always gone, and will continue to go, to Sea Shepherd.fr every time Smashwords has made a payment! Thank you to those who have supported the group, independent authors, and Sea Shepherd. Our collections are usually written with one theme or genre in mind. Each author contributes when they have the time, so some of the collections have as many as twelve authors participating. Every collection has something new, with stories and poems ranging from romance, drama, and adventure to mystery, fantasy, and horror. All the Top Writers Block's proceeds will go to Sea Shepherd, so by buying you are helping to keep our oceans alive! Thank You all so much!

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      Book preview

      Wheels - Top Writers Block

      Collection of Short Stories

      by

      Top Writers Block

      on the theme:

      ‘Wheels’

      Copyright©June 2014 Top Writers Block

      Published by Top Writers Block at Smashwords

      ISBN: 9781310208584

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

      http://suzystewartdubotbooks.weebly.com

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of these authors.

      Credits

      Cover design : Suzy Stewart Dubot

      Cover photo : Junior Libby http://goo.gl/6cK1Tb

      Table of Contents

      Progeny by Elizabeth Rowan Keith

      Wheels of Time by Suzy Stewart Dubot

      Wheels by Barnaby Wilde

      The Wheels on the Bus by Don Bick

      A Tale From Shank Beach by Bill Rayburn

      Run Flat by Melissa Szydlek

      Gone with the Spin by Elizabeth Rowan Keith

      The Running Boy by Barnaby Wilde

      A Fun-loving Guy by Suzy Stewart Dubot

      Progeny

      by

      Elizabeth Rowan Keith

      ©2014 Elizabeth Rowan Keith

      Elizabeth Rowan Keith is a researcher, writer, and artist who has received multiple awards in all three fields. Along with her collie, Belle, she tends many gardens and trees under the grand sky of the North American

      Great Plains. She is the widow of award-winning author David H. Keith.

      Wheels Walker was a chip off the old block. His daddy was just as clueless.

      The Walkers had no concept of cause and effect. They didn’t link actions to consequences. At every predictable outcome, they were unfailingly surprised.

      Both of them were like actors in a cheap horror movie. An audience of any sort could see a disaster unfolding, while the ridiculous character in the film maneuvered right into it.

      Gums Walker was the first I met. The meeting was brief. It was on my first day out of the academy; my first on the street. I was paired with a training officer.

      Our second call of the night had to do with an officer down. When we arrived at the scene, several other officers had already responded and were in position. They all had their service revolvers aimed at Gums. He was holding a gun, standing over the officer he’d just shot.

      As my partner and I left the patrol car and took cover, the other officers were yelling orders at Gums to drop his weapon. My heart was racing. I could barely hear the shouted commands over the pounding in my ears.

      Gums raised his weapon toward the officers. As the barrel leveled at them, they fired.

      I’m pretty sure, for a moment, my heart stopped entirely.

      Gunfire is a lot louder without the ear protection worn while training on the academy firing range. The volume caught me by surprise. This seems like the time to share that helpful fact with the rookie next to me in the passenger seat.

      Anyway, that was the end of that. That was the end of Gums.

      I never did learn why he was called Gums.

      So here I am, on my very last day before retirement, trainee riding shotgun, chasing what Gums had a chance to produce before he left this world. He had a son.

      Charles is his first name, just like his father’s. But this version of the Walker line is called Wheels.

      I could only speculate why Wheels Walker was given his nickname. It guessed it had to do with a childhood fascination with wheeled toys, which led to his untamed appreciation for motorized vehicles. They usually had something to do with whatever brand of trouble he chose.

      This time it has to do with a stolen 1999 Dodge Ram 4X4 pickup truck. From the way it’s moving, it has that V-10 engine.

      No doubt Wheels thinks he can outrun a patrol car in that truck. Honestly, he’s right.

      But he can’t outrun a radio. There is a rolling roadblock waiting up ahead.

      I don’t know what Wheels will do when he sees a line of patrol cars blocking the highway in front of him, or what he will do when they attempt to slow him to a stop. Having been privileged enough to see a broad range of Wheel’s performance art, I’d guess that just about the time they begin to slow down, he will take to the ditch to go around the slowing row of patrol cars.

      It would not be smart of Wheels to try escape via the ditch. The borrow ditches along here are steep and deep. Right now they’re full of spring flood water.

      That truck Wheels has stolen sits high. If he takes to the ditch too fast he’ll flip it, one way or another. Four wheel drive and a big engine won’t keep a vehicle upright.

      I may as well have brought popcorn. We’ve came to a predictable part of the movie.

      The rolling roadblock comes into view. Just as Wheels catches up to it, he hits the brakes and turns toward the ditch.

      Wheels hit the slope at the edge of the ditch much faster than I expected. The Dodge Ram became airborne, which is no small thing for a vehicle that heavy. In the air it rolled over, before landing in the bottom of the ditch with enough force to shoot water up as high in the air as a geyser at Yellowstone.

      Wheels buried that truck, upside down, roof collapsed, up to the doors in the muck at the bottom of the borrow ditch. Most of it was under water.

      Some of the officers who had been in the roadblock tried to go in after him. Many a uniform was

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