Death of a Lancer -- Smoke Break Fiction
a short short story about the vagaries of car ownership
He and the mechanic stared at the waves of heat roll off of the Mitsubishi’s engine. He didn’t want to make eye contact with the mechanic. He was ashamed to have something fail on him like this—especially so publicly—and then he felt shame for the superstition that creeped into his thought process. By looking at the mechanic, he would somehow acknowledg…
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