Edge
“Crews were laboring to re-engineer the bridge and enable it to survive an earthquake of 8.0 or higher on the Richter scale. This meant they had to close off lanes of traffic and stand talking while huge cranes waited, cocked and unmoving. Every time anyone tried to cross the bridge, it was the same—unpredictable. It had been a minor miracle that Rhonda had gotten me to the hospital as quickly as she had, and Mom said she wanted to be close to the hospital and not have to face the bridge if Some...thing Happened.
When I was a little boy I would sit in the car parked in front of the house and pretend to drive. The imaginary landscape outside the car was forest, jungle, desert. The car was an armored personnel carrier, a drift of desert dust in the rearview mirror, dazzling the enemy.
Sometimes even now I liked sitting in front of the house, windows rolled all the way up, listening to the Volvo 960’s sound system. The stereo had been paid for by a loan broker as a Christmas present, before Mom wore him out with her twenty-four-hour-a-day personality.MoreLess
When I was a little boy I would sit in the car parked in front of the house and pretend to drive. The imaginary landscape outside the car was forest, jungle, desert. The car was an armored personnel carrier, a drift of desert dust in the rearview mirror, dazzling the enemy.
Sometimes even now I liked sitting in front of the house, windows rolled all the way up, listening to the Volvo 960’s sound system. The stereo had been paid for by a loan broker as a Christmas present, before Mom wore him out with her twenty-four-hour-a-day personality.MoreLess
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