Bj Blaskovich: A Short Story

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A petty soul was serving a life sentence in prison for murder or so the judge wrongfully sentenced Bj Blaskovich. Angry and resentful about his situation, he decided that he couldn’t spend his life in a cell in prison and Rott away. He began plotting ways to escape from the jail.

Blaskovich became good friends with one of the prison caretakers. Her job was to bury any prisoners who died, in a graveyard just outside the prison walls. Whenever a prisoner died, the caretaker rang a bell, which was heard by all of the prison inmates. The caretaker then got the body and put it in a casket. Next, she entered her office to fill out the death certificate before returning to the casket to nail the lid shut. Finally, she put the casket on a wagon to
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Even though he was very uncomfortable surrounded in the stench of a decaying corpse within the coffin. The dead body beneath him began to bloat, he knew that with each nail he was one step closer to freedom.

The coffin was lifted onto the wagon and taken outside to the graveyard. Bj could feel the coffin being lowered into the ground. He didn’t make a sound as the coffin hit the bottom of the grave with a thud.

Finally he heard the dirt dropping onto the top of the wooden coffin, and he knew that it was only a matter of time until he would be free at last. After several minutes of absolute silence, Blaskovich began to chuckle quietly to himself the lack of oxygen had cause him to hallucinate and become light headed.

Feeling curious, he decided to light a match to find out the identity of the dead prisoner beneath him. To his horror, he discovered that he was lying on top of the dead caretaker he had devised to dig him up. Also unraveling a note clasped between the caretakers fingers reading "I knew of your little plan, I also saw you get up to go to the room with coffins yet let you go, he may of been corrupt but I was no fool. I just enjoy the power, enjoy the fact I can do what I want to you sickening inmates and get away with

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