“Hold on, buddy.” The old Impala weaved through traffic like some oversized yacht cutting between skiffs, leaving them in its wake. “Just a bit longer.” At the wheel, Joe looked like he might burst into laughter. “Almost home.”
I crouched out of the wind in the backseat to avoid any possible splatter from Frank. Frank, all six feet of his lanky frame, rode shotgun in front, half-curled against the door, head lolling out of the open window, moaning like he could upchuck at any moment. Someone blew a horn, and Joe slipped between two slower cars and down the exit ramp to W Street. We headed west to Myrtle Grove.
C.S. Fuqua’s books include Big Daddy’s Gadgets (2006, SF, Awe-Struck Books, 2006), Walking after Midnight: Tales of Dark Faith (dark fantasy short fiction collection, RAGE Machine Books, Canada, 2005), Music Fell on Alabama, Divorced Dads, Notes to My Becca, and the Deadlines audio novel series. His short fiction and poems appear widely in publications such as CHIRON REVIEW, PEARL, DARK REGIONS, MAINSTREET RAG, BRUTARIAN, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, CEMETERY DANCE, BOGG, and Year's Best Horror Stories XIX, XX and XXI. He is a former newspaper and magazine journalist. For more information about his writing and other passions, including music and the playing and construction of native American flutes.