Saturday, February 22, 2025

The Road Home

 

The Road Home

It was late, on a dark and stormy night.

The wiper blades were brand new, but it was still damn difficult to see the road.

He loved working 2nd shift, but nights like this could be tricky.

As he approached the long narrow bridge, he instinctively slowed down, just a little bit.

He’d lived in this swampland his whole life; grown up hearing the folklore that outsiders thought of as silly or quaint, but never true.

He felt its eyes on him, and he gazed back as steadily as possible.

They nodded to each other politely and he drove on.

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