The Witch's Bottle
"Nobody in the entirety of the United States Marine Corps, in its history, eats Charms, EVER! It's bad ju-ju! You, of all people, should know this. I'm giving you three seconds to get rid of them!"
He couldn't get rid of them fast enough, as he spat it out of the window and tossed them onto the street. It was superstitious - silly, I suppose - but that word CHARM was a jinx. Every Marine knew it.
I let him have control of the radio as we slowly drove the strip, adjacent the boardwalk. Playing with the channels he finally settled on a song.
"That's freaking good... who is it?" I asked.
"Hell Above... Pierce the Veil," he said as he turned it up.
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