Willis' Lucky Escape-An Excerpt

Willis’ Lucky Escape

by

Austin Mitchell

            Willis woke up with a headache. He knew that it was after midnight because he had heard the National Anthem being played on the radio in an adjoining room. The room was dark and his hands and feet were bound. As he lay in the darkness he recollected what had happened earlier in the day. It had been about two o’clock. He had been driving his taxi on Molynes Road in Kingston, after dropping off a female passenger in Queensburry when two men waved him down. They wanted to go to Papine. His first instinct had been to drive on but he remembered that he hadn’t made Bydie’s money yet. This was Friday and the man would want his money first thing tomorrow morning. One man came to sit beside him while the other sat in the back.

       They were on Hope Road when he found a knife sticking him

in his side.

            “Hey guy, we are going to show you which road to turn in. My brethren has his gun with him so don’t bother try anything.”

            “It’s not my taxi this, brethren. It’s a man I am running it for.”

            “All the better, we don’t like to take away anything from people like ourselves.”

            Despite his pleas to the men, they took him to a lonely road in Meadowbrook Estate. They blindfolded him and locked him in the car trunk. He was highly suspicious that he was in Portmore and that the men had gone on a robbery spree with his taxi.

            Willis knew that when they returned, they were going to kill him. They would probably run the car with him in the trunk over a precipice. He felt weak, having not eaten since midday. They had taken his cell phone, his wallet and all the money he had on him.

            Willis wondered what Marlene was doing when she didn’t see him come home. He was normally home by eleven o’clock.
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