FICTION: car ride
the man with the patchwork heart:
cody and sarah did not yet know what a funeral was, and so the mood in the back seat could even be described as joyous in certain parts of the six hour car ride.
they played a game where they would give themselves an arbitrary amount of points for finding certain objects:
“six cows! 36 points!”
“tallest tree in the world! 231 points!”
“cemetery! 6 points!”
“horses! 12 points!”
their mother sat. stiff. she had lost her brother, stanley, forever (as she no…
