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TL SHERWOOD: Say Sayonara to My American Car

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I took my Beauty past eighty-two. During her thunderous last dance to the red zone’s outer edge, we melded into a demented mechanical dream. Down the sinewy stretch called Spooner’s Gulf, the Buick’s engine grew overwrought; her gears raged, but oh, how she and I flew!

Next stop: Toyota Town.

T. L. Sherwood lives in Western New York. Among other places, her work has appeared in Rosebud, Every Day Fiction, Ruthless Peoples Magazine, and Page and Spine. Her blog, Creekside Reflections, can be found at tlsherwood.wordpress.com.

KRYSTYNA FEDOSEJEVS: Autumn Drive

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He took her for a drive in the countryside, down a gravel road, past forests of red maples and golden oaks. Fading sunshine cast elongated shadows.

No one spoke.

He stopped the car, got out, and looked into her large, illuminated eyes.

“Still the prettiest coupe I know,” he said.

Krystyna Fedosejevs writes poetry, short stories and Flash Fiction. She has had several poems and flash fiction stories published. She is stationed in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, although she loves to travel around the world.

CONNELL WAYNE REGNER: The Elderly Housekeeper

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“You’re a naughty boy, Dr. Frankenstein, leaving all those body parts on the floor for me to trip over. If I didn’t know better, I’d swear you wanted me to trip and kill myself.”

“Then you’d better count yourself lucky I’m building a car down here and not a monster.”

Connell Wayne Regner wrote this story as inspired by Alex Sinclair’s The Disgruntled Housekeeper. Connell’s other dabblings can be found at paragraphplanet and wtdmagazine.wordpress.com.

Build Your Wealth

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“Honey, I’ve made a fairly significant purchase,” he told his wife.

“Is it a car?” she asked.

“Is it a house?” she asked.

“Is it a Learjet?” she asked.

“Is it a small South American island nation?” she asked.

“Yes,” he said. “It’s all on our very own Minecraft server!”

The Lynx, the Puma, and the Jaguar

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“Man, the new episode of that cartoon yesterday was phenomenal. There were a lynx and a puma, and they were riding around inside a jaguar…”

“What kind of Jaguar? An XFR? An XKR? An XJ?”

“…No, it was a robotic jaguar.”

“Like a Transformer?”

“I don’t think you’re understanding me.”

Can someone please please please please draw me a sketch of a lynx and a puma riding inside a robotic jaguar? PLEEEEEEAASE!?

This story was based on @gaymerinla‘s response to my request for two mammals and a vehicle.

DON CRAWFORD: Very Last Anniversary Gift

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Husband arrives home having forgotten a significant anniversary.

Wife greets him, expecting dinner, flowers, cards, anything.

Husband apologizes, profusely. Wife demands recompense: “Something in the driveway tomorrow that goes zero to 215 fast.”

Next morning she discovers a small flat package. Imagine her surprise at a new set of bathroom scales!

Don Crawford was told this story by a Wendy’s employee and decided to convert it to 50 words and relay it to all of you!

All Good Spy-Action Heroes Have the Initials J.B.

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Jared Brown, secret agent, mouthed a silent “Thank you” to the eccentric elderly gentleman who had insisted he install the high-tech self-deploying winch into the boot of his European sports car, which was currently hanging by said winch, with him inside it, from the ledge of an exceedingly tall cliff.

@captainmakr responded to my request for two nouns and a verb over Twitter with the words “car”, “boot”, and “hang”.

I chose to use the word “boot” in the British sense, to mean the trunk of a car. Creative license!