Turn The Screw Novels & Stories

In the same motion, I turn the car around, the tires screeching slightly as I switch direction. The hospital can wait. This can’t.

​He doesn't know who he's dealing with, I whispered to myself, my teeth gritted so hard my jaw ached. ​I stood back up, scanning the room for a tool. My eyes landed on the heavy brass desk lamp resting on a side table. Without hesitation, I marched over, unscrewed the weighted metal base, and extracted a thick, flat-head structural screw from the assembly. It was crude, but in the hands of someone desperate enough, it was a lever. ​I dropped to my knees beside the maintenance panel, jamming the makeshift tool into the slot of the bottom screw and twisting with all my weight. The metal groaned with a harsh, protesting screech that sounded deafeningly loud in the dead silence of the room.

I'm going to yell at her to hurry up when I see her stick half of her body out the pilot's window, looking stressed. —Try not to turn on!— "It's just the battery," I say, moving to the part of the engine that's near the hood pivots, before the front seat. One of the links has been let out of the duct tape so I remove the strip and with the clock against me I pray to God I'm not surprised when I contact the link and attach it to the comparison screw. Few eJustogen power-ups from the screw, which is a decent sign. Switch it on! I yell for my better half to pay attention to me, positioning myself to lower the hood.

But there were bars there. Deciding to try anyway, I moved to the window. I gripped the bars with both hands and shook them to test their strength. Most of them were pretty strong… except one. It rattled very loosely. I could see, just looking that the screw holding it in place was almost all the way out. If I could loosen it fully and remove the bar, then it would be just wide enough for a kid like me to slip out. At once I reached my fingers around the screw and tried to turn it, lefty loosely, just like my dad had taught me.

"I don't. " "Mmm, " she said. "Beats me. " Mrs. Ruffalo's energetic voice lingered like the background in a defunct picture and everything, all sounds intertwined forming a unison; The knocking of our Biology teacher's red shoes. Victor, chewing on his pen. A couple of girls gossiping behind my ears. Stan, the class president, nibbling on a piece of gum while texting with his phone. My heart throbbing and so many others.

Consistently he loosened up increasingly more around her and she frequently detected that he needed to broaden their time together. He pondered the board once more, stroking his somewhat stubbled jaw nicely as he thought about his best course of action. She snorted disdainfully while taking down his points as he eventually settled on "eel," which was placed so poorly that it was only worth three points. She smiled sweetly at him and pointed to the free "t" that he could have used for "exit." She then used that "t" to make up her own word, using the conveniently placed triple word score and getting a handy 39 points for her "smithy."

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He felt the keyhole, then the chain. "I need something thin," he muttered. "A wire. A pin." "Look in my back pocket," I said. "The screw from the van. I kept it." Dominic leaned down, his fingers sliding into my denim pocket. He pulled out the tiny metal screw. It was bent, but the tip was still sharp. He jammed it into the lock mechanism of the right cuff. Scrape. Click. The tool didn't work. It slipped, gouging into his thumb. He cursed under his breath.

It was slender and she could definitely use it like a phillips head screwdriver. “Try to lock me in my room.” She grumbled walking over to the door. She kneeled down and jammed the envelope opener into the bottom hinge. She then proceeded to hit the bottom of the envelope opener with the heel of the boot. After several wacks the screw popped out from the hinge. She did the same to the top and felt so proud of herself when the top screw fell and hit the floor. She smirked at the door. “Bye bye door.” Nora grinned and kicked the door.

I raised my hand gripping the yellow tool with my sweaty hand. "Hey mister" I called out to which the boy turned around his eyes got widened, and he slowly took a step back. "what are you doing with that screwdriver?" The boy asked, he looks scared, and he put his phone in his pocket, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT?" he yelled a bit. "THIS" I yelled and STAB THE SCREWDRIVER on his car's door, giving it a big scratch, I again stab the car to scratch it. I didn't take a minute and started to run throwing away the screwdriver. RUN VANESSA, RUN.