Jacob heard the sound of the truck before he saw it...... in fact, he felt the forks of the truck pick the dumpster up before he quite realised what was happening, such was the shock of finding he had no arms........ "it's times like thes i wsh I had wings" thought Jacob.... and suddnely felt himself lifted clear of the dumpster, just as the truck tipped the contents into its gaping maw. Looking frantically around to see what had saved him, Jacob noticed a pair of large, very feathery things sprouting form his shoulder blades. Even in his present state of confusion, even Jacob could recognise wings when he saw them. "Where the HELL did they come from" he wondered........ and it was that klind of thinking that suddenly bought the events of the previous night flooding back, filling his mind with horror at how stupid he had been.......
Sitting bored before the television, thinking how he would sell his soul for some excitment, and then wondering what was causing the smell of sulphur. The surpirse appearance of Satan, the bargaining, the signing away of his immortal soul. But when Satan asked if he would like the power to have his wishes come true, Jacob didnt think that the answer "I would give my arms to be able to make my wishes come true" would be taken literally!!!! Which explained his lack of arms, and his wings, but certainly not how he had ended up in the dumpster..........
Bringing his mind back to the present, (he needed to start trying to work out this flying thing), he noticed a man running past the garbage truck, just as the truck began to reverse. Surely the man would be crushed against the wall...... unless Jacob did something quick.
Wings folded, plummeting earthwards, hands outstretched to grab the stranger...........
Doc Practise didnt realise as he ran past the truck that it was turning as it reversed..... his last thought as he was about to be squeezed into a red stain on the wall was "This must be it, here comes an angel to collect me".........
WILL JACOB ARRIVE IN TIME?? WILL MALCOLM BECOME JAM, AND IF SO, WHAT FLAVOR?? WILL JACOB HAVE AN UNCONTROLLABLE URGE TO FLY SOUTH FOR THE WINTER????
all these, and many more questions will be answered and raised, in the next installment of:
the absolutely Super Adventures of Jacob Remmington.
