FLASH FICTION CHALLENGE: A STORY IN FIVE SENTENCES

Here is my story for Chuck Wendig’s Flash Fiction Challenge found here:

http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2016/03/11/flash-fiction-challenge-a-story-in-five-sentences/

I just realized it’s longer than five sentences, but under his 100 maximum word count. Meh.

 

Traveling at 80 mph, he grits his teeth, and the world streaks past. The office beckons for him to come and turn his gear in the great machine.

The oncoming headlights are blinding. Horns blare. Shattered glass hangs on the air, glittering like stars in the morning gloom.

Wreckage tears through his skin, untold stories of where he’s been. If only I had more time, he thinks.

The world blooms with reds and blacks. His pain is an orb of fading light.

The machine subtracts 1 from today’s calculation. An old pitted gear is replaced.

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