Second Chances

A Micro Tale

Steven G
ILLUMINATION
1 min readJun 22, 2020

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Photo by JOHN TOWNER on Unsplash

He doesn’t owe the kidnapper a damn thing.

Clutching his daughter close to his chest, Gary dropped the blood-stained baseball bat and ran out of the wooded darkness towards the highway.

Left behind, sprawled across the mossy ground, the beaten kidnapper cried out.

He never thought to check her for a second cell phone.

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Steven G
ILLUMINATION

Military veteran and an aspiring author of flash fiction, historical fiction and non-fiction, and inspiring stories.