Stories tagged “drive”

  • Shadows paint our backdrops (Mature)

    I’ve never moved this fast in my life. Highway, freeway, autobahn, it doesn’t matter, I’m hauling ass. A hint of a speed limit graces my peripherals and even though I’m driving too fast to see the sign that fact alone is evidenc...

  • Back Down the Mountain

    We were headed on our way down the foggy mountain road. It was one of those winding ones, the ones that you always read about in books. The kind that make you feel like they could go anywhere. For all we knew this road could take us anywhere. It was th...

    • Author: George
    • Posted over 2 years ago.
    • 4 out of 5

  • The Deer

    It was dark at night, and slippery as well. I was the lucky one. The deer, frozen by instinct, was standing shock still in my headlights. I couldn’t stop for the deer. I was going way too fast. I had to go home quickly. My wife needed me. When I was ...

  • The crisis line

    Kelly drove home from work. She was so upset, she could barely concentrate on the road. Her tears stung her eyes, and blurred her vision. She kept thinking about Mike. She stepped into her apartment building, went up to the her floor, and went into her...

  • I want

    I want to run away Run away from cyclical problems Run like Forrest ran, falling off shackles of past selves Yet I stand still A statue I want to fly away Fly over every worry and let the wind carry me Fly like Superman flies, wishing to turn back time...

  • Someone Heard, Someone Noticed

    Nothing else occupied his thoughts. He had to know-had to see if she was okay, if she was alright. After hearing the endless rings followed by her voicemail for the 11th time, he threw on a dark blue hood jacket over his white teeshirt and quietly shut...

  • Muse

    Two-hundred, thousand years is a long time to hold the same job. To live with one mistake. Even He can’t be so ignorant as to deny the change in all things. Still, she knew they’d get to her soon. Her superiors would abandon her to watch li...

  • The Esses

    A quick glance out the driver’s side glass revealed the distance between Hector and the 19 of Emmit Swann. One might fit a fire hydrant between the cars as they drifted toward the wall on the outside of turn one. Hector slammed the transmission b...