I was on a drive several states from home, headed to my brother’s wedding and had been driving for hours down a freeway before taking an old country highway, a bit of a shortcut, it could take near an hour off of my drive. I was wearing only jean shorts, it was hot and I had AC in the car but liked the windows down on a trip like this. I was passing through a small town, well a spot in the road that had one traffic light, the town looked like it had dried up and died in the hot sun. My car was cutting out and feeling like it was about to quit, I saw a café but it looked closed, a gas station, closed too, in fact everything looked closed and decayed. As the engine quit I was able to coast to the side of the road near a huge old oak tree. Fuck, stranded in rusty town, one that humanity abandoned, I reached for my cell phone, of course, no signal. I slammed the car door shut and looked around, I reached in and blew the car horn. “Hello…. Hello!” I called out. The only response...
By Seth Cybertar