The Pizza Boy

CleverandWtf
5 min readSep 17, 2023
Photo by Jakob Ben Cotton on Unsplash

This is a special post this week from The Guest.

“Another pizza delivery boy has gone missing last night. Jonathan Harting’s car was found abandoned in a ditch off Carter Avenue around 2 a.m. after he departed from his work to deliver to a nearby neighborhood. When he didn’t return for over an hour and wouldn’t answer his boss’ call, he called the police to declare him missing. This marks the seventh delivery boy who has vanished in the past three months since the first, a Larry Wil…” The sound of the news drifted off as Scott looked out the window to see one of his delivery boys run through the rain in a hurry to get into his car.

Please God don’t let him get hurt,” he thought to himself as he watched Colin drive off into the night.

Scott tried to tell his crew that they didn’t have to deliver, or should at least go in pairs, but they all shrugged it off and joked to each other about getting killed by some crazed loon or abducted by aliens. Even if they were scared they wouldn’t show it, and they sure as hell weren’t going to miss the opportunity to make their money on tips. All he could do was wait anxiously for his boys to return safely every time they drove away.

Mrs. Hill peaked through the blinds to see a car pull in her driveway and moved to answer the door, taking a second to collect herself as she heard her 2 little girls rush into…

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Amber and Ashley are sisters who love to read and write, mostly fantasy and speculative fiction. Check out our blog: cleverandwtf.com