A Sudden Response

A Sudden Response

Author: R.L. Mathewson Listening Length: 6h 52m
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Eric and Joe, the EMT crew of Echo 17, have been best friends since they were eight years old when Eric had taken it upon himself to improve the ugly dress that Joe was wearing with a handful of worms, only to have Joe force him to- Well, it wasn’t important what Joe made him do with that handful of worms or the vow t...

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“ F resh meat,” Eric said, reading the homemade sign drawn on the back of an old pizza box with a chuckle as he pulled on the light-blue uniform shirt over his white tee-shirt. “You must be Greg.”

The man currently tied to a backboard began nodding frantically as Eric took in the boys’ recent work. They had Greg strapped to a backboard in nothing but his boxers. His mouth was taped shut with a piece of two-inch white medical tape. Someone, probably Johnson, drew a happy face on his stomach. To top it off, they’d leaned Greg back against the chain-link fence with the sign taped across his hips for the entire world to see.

Eric put his bag down on the sidewalk and worked on fixing his uniform as he said, “I’m really sorry about this, Greg. I meant to get here sooner, but I got held up.”