The Z Club (21 page)

EXT. ROSSI’S PIZZERIA – NIGHT.  Guido’s car is parked out front.  They head for it.  She is helping Brent into the car when the pizzeria’s glass window explodes and Guido jumps through.  Guido emerges with the pizza cutter, his face severely burned and deformed.  Cheese drips from his misshapen chin.

Guido attacks Brent, ready to deliver a killing blow, when Amy spots the Weed Wacker Pizza Cutter in the backseat of Guido’s car.  She reaches in, grabs it and pulls the starting cord.  It whirs to life.

“Hey asshole,” Amy says, “Is this for carry out…
or delivery!
”  The pizza cutter slices into Guido’s chest, spurting blood as she cuts through to his heart.  Guido’s body twitches and then goes still.

Amy drops the Weed Wacker and helps Brent into the car.  They drive off into the night.

INT. AMY’S HOUSE – THREE WEEKS LATER.  Amy and Brent snuggle on the couch.  They hold hands, and we see something different now: there’s a RING on Amy’s finger.

The doorbell RINGS.

Amy and Brent look at each other.  Amy goes to the door, opens it cautiously.  There’s a Man on the stoop wearing a red and yellow polo shirt, his back to her.  Amy sucks in her breath.  The Man turns.  “Chinese delivery?” the Man, who is really just a pimply-faced teenager, asks.  Amy pays him and takes the bag of Chinese food.  She closes the door, glares at Brent accusingly.  “You ordered out?”  Brent laughs, backpedals, thinks it’s funny.  Amy softens, laughs, sits down next to him.  “As long as it isn’t pizza.”  They take the Chinese food out and begin to eat.

INT. ROSSI’S PIZZARIA.  CU of a freshly made pizza, PIZZA CUTTER resting beside it.  A HAND, horribly burned, comes into frame and grabs hold of the pizza cutter as we FADE OUT.

SIDE A:

1.
   
Highway to Hell
by AC/DC

2.
   
The Crying Game
performed by Boy George

3.
   
Paradise City
by Guns N’ Roses

4.
   
Livin’ on a Prayer
by Bon Jovi

5.
   
Devil’s Plaything
by Danzig

SIDE B:

1.
   
Armageddon It
by Def Leppard

2.
   
Thriller
by Michael Jackson

3.
   
Enter Sandman
by Metallica

4.
   
Don’t Stop Me Now
by Queen

5.
   
Bodies
by Drowning Pool

J.W. Bouchard is a horror, science fiction, and children's fantasy author best known for his novellas Rabid and Last Summer. When he isn't writing, he enjoys caving in South Dakota and spending time in his comic book store, Heroes Only, in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He lives in Iowa with his wife, two children, and a ring-necked dove that seems to have discovered the secret to immortality.