A Story of Three Persons

By Jess deRivera

Majora Pickle sat on the 1:50 pm train from Trenton, staring at the ceiling above her. It was nothing interesting to look at. She realized this with a start and turned to stare out the window. Ads about stock alternatives and heart transplants passed slowly. For some reason, nothing repulsed Majora more than a bad advertisement, especially one that is bad simply because it was out of date.

On a bus headed to Long Island, Bego Garrond realized with a start that he had been staring at the pretty girl sitting across his aisle for quite some time. She was racially ambiguous and this made Bego feel uncomfortable. Ever since he was told that Aeropostale became cheaper because black people started shopping there, his unspoken fear of discrimination embittered him towards girls like Across the Aisle Girl.

In a small town between Trenton and Long Island, Jeremy Baker sat in his car impatiently tapping the steering wheel with his pointer finger and middle finger. Traffic was stopped up only a couple blocks from his next class, Spiritual Development and Discovery. An image of his professor’s stout belly flashed in his mind and he frowned. Jeremy decided he could not afford to be late to class again. He exited his car and locked it there in the middle of the street and began walking.

Jeremy had taken seventeen steps when a bus started creeping across seemingly empty train tracks and was immediately run straight through by an oncoming train. As pieces of metal debris flew into dangerous and beautiful arcs, Jeremy was struck in the head by the emergency exit axe that had been in the bus, and was killed instantly. His organs would eventually save the lives of both Bego Garrond (kidney) and Majora Pickle (heart valve). Bego and Majora went to the same counseling class together and eventually got married. Their son was named Jeremy, who, upon obtaining his driver’s license, decided not to be an organ donor.

The end.

Jessica Lynne Primo de Rivera was born in Philadelphia on July 22, 1991. She has four brothers and no cats. Her favorite writer is Joan Didion and her favorite food is waffles. After moving to Spain in 1999, she returned to the US to attend Bodine High School in Philadelphia. She is currently a sophomore at The King’s College majoring in Politics, Philosophy & Economics. If she were a character from Harry Potter, she would probably be the house-elf known as Winky.