‘Slow down.’Gavin ignores the request. It’s like he’s playing on his XBox, his gaze fixed twenty metres ahead, the car an extension of himself.
They hurtle round a corner on a perfect line, the g-force tilting them in their seats.
‘Gavin!’ This isn’t a game to Chloe, it’s a rollercoaster ride and she’s scared.
‘Relax. I know this road like the back of my hand.’
They crest a hill, the wheels leaving the slick road.
An over-sized truck fills the windscreen.
Chloe screams, Gavin instinctively turns hard left, hitting the brakes.
The car smacks into a wall and cartwheels.
A drabble is a story of exactly 100 words.
Chilling, Rob! And sadly, all too real...
ReplyDeleteA good one, but in my opinion the sentence about Chloe being scared is not as successful as the rest.
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