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"A Wounded Animal"

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A Wounded Animal

By

Jake Bible

The car roared down the highway, flames blowing from under the hood, the smell of burning rubber trailing like the scent of blood from a wounded animal.

“Just five miles,” Neil said, gripping the gear shift like it was a talisman.

“We won’t make it, Angela said, the shotgun across her lap, her eyes locked onto the side mirror as the other vehicles got closer by the second.

“We’ll make it,” Neil said, pressing harder on the accelerator.

“Okay.”

The vehicles grew even closer.

Neil glanced in the rearview mirror and saw the truth.

They were not gonna make it.

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