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Submitted to Contest #8
Tracy pulled into a farmer’s driveway, coasting and freaking out. Her car had stopped running and her dad, just laid off, couldn’t afford this garbage. She was rolling and crying. Good thing the farmer’s driveway was so long. Tracy thought of being broken down in Meridian, Idaho, population 2,000, and cried harder. She felt a slight bump and, belatedly, hit the brakes. She rubbed her eyes some and saw that she stopped with the front of her car on a locu...
A flat tire. What’s there to cause a flat tire? There’s nothing out here! Johnny looked at the left front of the car, and there was no denying it; the tire was flat. Grumbling obscenities, he walked back to the trunk. Thank God, there’s the spare. He searched for the stuff to change it with. There! What’s it called? A jack. He looked at the flimsy thing and wondered. He shrugged his eighteen-year-old shoulders and placed it under the left front quarter panel. What now? How woul...
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