Here is a story of mine. I've decided to just link to the google doc rather than post the entire story here. But I'll give you the first page or two here.
They bounced alongside the interstate on the abandoned dirt road, each silent, if not exactly in thought, in an attempt to look thoughtful. His right hand and her left rested on the center console, close enough to touch if either of them wanted to. His fingers tapped anxiously on the front lip near the clasp and hers dangled, almost slipping down into the shadow between the seat and the console. He scanned the bumpiness ahead with intensity, looking for any glimmer or waver in the air that would let him know the gypsy lady hadn’t lied. Susan, who could not believe the gypsy woman, rested her head against the side window, staring through her graying hair out at the dust. It swirled around the car in billowing eddies that belied the clean, ‘new car’ interior. For five years she had put up with this pilgrimage as Arlin meticulously traced the route they had taken so haphazardly on their honeymoon twenty years before. She was ready to be with the nonsense.
Arlin believed in the gypsy ju-ju because he had to. The promise that being in an exact place where they had been in the past at an exact time of the day when they had been there would allow them to go back and relive the past was a narcotic to him. Susan didn’t believe any of it, but told Arlin that she did, sure that the tarot cards and fortune telling had been carnival tricks to fool the gullible and the desperate. On the way home from the fair, when he told her he wanted to try to find where they had stopped the morning after they got married so that they could go back and fix things, she’d simply added the idea to the long list of his deficiencies. She never thought he would take it so far as to go out and look for their old Chevy Malibu, though and only accompanied him because it was the only thing the worked on together.
If you want to read the rest, open this google doc.
If you want to read the rest, open this google doc.
