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Submitted to Contest #19
By Madeline McDowellThe grey sky hung oppressively low as I merged towards the off-ramp. The rhythmic clicking of the blinker kept beat above the soft hum of Christmas music while the SUV next to me and I negotiated, rather heatedly, the terms of my merger. With a rev of his engine and a single finger salute, my sparring partner was gone; sped off ahead and disappeared into the torrent of taillights continuing down the highway. This left me just enough room to take the ramp before ploughing head first into those orange garbage...
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