Every Brilliant Eye
“It was like clinging to a noodle in a high sea. I put my foot on the brake, but they had thought of that too. The pedal went all the way to the floor with a sigh and stayed there. The emergency brake pulled back without effort in my hand and the car kept moving. I thought about the man I had seen going into Curly’s on my way out.
Louise would probably have called it a cliché.
I had slowed down for the turn, but the street sloped a little and the speedometer needle was climbing. I cut the motor ...and shifted into Neutral. If I could bring the speed down far enough to shift into Park without doing a double jackknife through the windshield, if.
That wasn’t going to happen. I was up to forty now and still picking up speed. Also, Fenkell was taking a lazy curve to the north and the Olds was heading east with all the blind machine faith in its pilot of an Aztec holy man walking into a volcano.
Forty-five. I opened the door on the driver’s side.
Forty-eight. A small shopping mall came up on my right.MoreLess
Louise would probably have called it a cliché.
I had slowed down for the turn, but the street sloped a little and the speedometer needle was climbing. I cut the motor ...and shifted into Neutral. If I could bring the speed down far enough to shift into Park without doing a double jackknife through the windshield, if.
That wasn’t going to happen. I was up to forty now and still picking up speed. Also, Fenkell was taking a lazy curve to the north and the Olds was heading east with all the blind machine faith in its pilot of an Aztec holy man walking into a volcano.
Forty-five. I opened the door on the driver’s side.
Forty-eight. A small shopping mall came up on my right.MoreLess
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