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Submitted to Contest #189
It was terribly cold. Snow was falling and it was almost dark. The weather reports over the radio were all coming to pass. The pavement on the interstate was now beginning to glisten as the road spray from other vehicles’ tires disappeared and hardened into black ice. Charlie had been keeping tabs on the impending weather ahead of her all day. Every report she listened to warned of a big snowstorm in the mountains. Charlie was a trucker, and she slowed her speed down to help maintain traction on the quickly freezing ...
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