Lost Along the Way (2015)
“It was Chase, of course, but I didn’t answer. When it rang a second time, I switched it off. Fireworks blossomed on the horizon, tiny flowers of light, reminding me it was a holiday. Somewhere, people were laughing and celebrating. I tried not to hate them.
It was almost eleven when I arrived in Laramie. The depressing images had finally abated, along with the fireworks. The tedium of the drive—especially the last hour or so, driving west across I-80 through the wasteland of southern Wyomin...g—had numbed me to everything.
I wanted it to rain. That would have suited my mood, but there was no chance. Not tonight. Not this late in the evening in southern Wyoming. Not with the high pressure center settled in on top of us as it was prone to do. There’d probably been a 20 percent chance of showers in the late afternoon, but by this time of night, outside of the monsoon season, we’d dropped to rain being a near impossibility.MoreLess
It was almost eleven when I arrived in Laramie. The depressing images had finally abated, along with the fireworks. The tedium of the drive—especially the last hour or so, driving west across I-80 through the wasteland of southern Wyomin...g—had numbed me to everything.
I wanted it to rain. That would have suited my mood, but there was no chance. Not tonight. Not this late in the evening in southern Wyoming. Not with the high pressure center settled in on top of us as it was prone to do. There’d probably been a 20 percent chance of showers in the late afternoon, but by this time of night, outside of the monsoon season, we’d dropped to rain being a near impossibility.MoreLess
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