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by Houdini Choutupalli (India)

A leap into the unknown Isle of Man

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A warm street in NYC. A couple beers down at the bar. X has twenty bucks in his pocket. He pays the tab and leaves with his twenty dollars that are left. Come.out to smoke a cigarette. A land rover, grey in colour pulls up to him, there are three children in total. One strapped in the front seat and two in the back and the driver seems to be in a hurry, the lady and children are crying. The driver asked X, "do you have any money to spear, I need twenty dollars and I will give you this good ring instead." Assessing the situation, at midnight, it's a tough call. What do do you do when it's the last twenty dollars you have? He starts crying. The man weighs atleast 250pounds has a hunch of gold chains on his neck and days I'll give you this gold ring if you can give me twenty dollars because I need gas. The numberplate on the car is a Florida number plate. X thinks " A Florida number plate on a car in NYC? In this situation?" X says " why can't you go to a pawn shop? You'd get more than twenty dollars for the ring there" the driver replies " I don't have the time and we all don't have any of our id's". X thinks to himself "that's strange". X replies sparingly drunk " I can give you ten", the driver replies, "I need twenty and I wil give you the ring" he said in an urgency like someone was out to get them. Scene end. Blackout.