Narrative:
The
traffic light blinked off and on. Red,
blink, red, blink, red… Dylan’s lights
blinked in tune, indicating that the car would soon be veering right. No cars were on the road, it was night,
nothing much was happening at all. Dylan
just sat there. He had just dropped off
his oldest son, Bobby, at football.
Another day, another practice, some more driving. Tomorrow he would wake up and go to work. That’s what he’d do. Wake up, go to work, come home, drive Bobby
to football, go to sleep. He’d wake
up. Wake up…
A car
honked behind him. Dylan was lost. Where was he?
Blinking red light, that’s right, forever blinking red light. Red, blink, red, blink, yellow, green, blue,
purple, red, blink… The car’s lights
stared at Dylan’s back, angry that he had not moved. Dylan stared at the light, watching it blink,
in tune with his lights, in tune with his eyes opening and closing. The road was empty ahead, a car waited behind. Eventually he heard a shout from the side and
the car drove past, a finger was shown but Dylan wasn’t sure why, or how, or
when…?...? Something was up. Oh, the light, the blinkingness was up,
towards the sky, towards God. God? Was he real, would he do this to Dylan, all
this nothingness. The light blinked on,
yes, no, yes, no, God doesn’t know. Why
would it be Dylan sitting in a car on an empty street. He could go off and leave, could go straight,
what if he did go straight? Bobby would
miss him, at least, he guessed he would miss him. Who’s the him here? Must be Bobby, no wait, it was he who was
him. Right, the light.
Go
forward or go left, that’s the trouble.
Something troubled him. It was
the light? No, not the red, that made
sense. It was the left. Right, oh, right, he had to go right. Day-dreamed about the dreamed day where right
wasn’t the right answer. Home wasn’t the
house to be. Wife wasn’t the woman to
have. None of it made sense. Figured that’s how it goes though. And the car moved from it’s stationary
position.
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