Karma Always Gets You Short Story

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The theme that follows this story all the way to its end is that karma always gets you. There are multiple minor examples that prove this but three examples that i noticed are more stood out then others. The first, more obvious one is how Alex always treated Dim like a lesser being. “‘The rozzes are coming.’ Dim said: ‘You stay to meet them huh huh huh,’ and then I viddied that he had his oozy out, and then he upped with it and it snaked whishhh and he chained me gentle and artistic like on the glazlids, me just closing them up in time. Then I was howling around trying to viddy with this howling great pain, and Dim said: ‘I don't like you should do what you done, old droogy. Not right it wasn't to get on to me like the way you done, brat.’” This is basically how Dim is repaying Alex for all the times he has treated him badly, by assiting the police in catching him. …show more content…
“We yeckated back townwards, my brothers, but just outside, not far from what they called the Industrial Canal, we viddied the fuel needle had like collapsed, like our own ha ha ha needles had, and the auto was coughing kashl kashl kashl. Not to worry overmuch, though, because a rail station kept flashing blue - on off on off - just near. The point was whether to leave the auto to be sobiratted by the rozzes or, us feeling like in a hate and murder mood, to give it a fair tolchock into the starry watersfor a nice heavy loud plesk before the death of the evening. This latter we decided on, so we got out and, the brakes off, all four tolchocked it to the edge of the filthy water that was like treacle mixed with human hole products, then one good horrorshow tolchock and in she

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