Starting a new project with friends - writing one piece per week based on a shared theme/prompt.
This one is late, and feels unfinished, but also feels sort of complete. Not sure where to take it from here, so this is how it stands.
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The car rattled and made a sudden heaving motion - worse than before - and driver gifted passenger another repentant smile.
"She's never let me down before," driver said, giving the well-dusted dashboard a somewhat less than inspired pat. The gesture was akin to a professional sport coaches' reassurances that his star player was definitely, totally, assuredly, no-way-no-how, not in the middle of a slump.
Passenger sighed and made no effort to hide a heavy mixture of doubt and annoyance.
It may not have been so disconcerting were they traveling on a more well used roadway. This one - never mind being surrounded by a forest so foreboding it would have given Bigfoot second thoughts - had apparently been forgotten, a theory well-supported by faded paint lines and a slalom of axle-bending potholes.
Despite the vehicle's age, driver managed to navigate these obstacles well enough to keep the voyage in progress, but passenger feared that if they were ever forced to stop, forward momentum would never be regained.
"I suppose this is a bad time to remind you that I said we should have taken the other exit," passenger said.
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