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Write a story about someone who started a road trip ten years ago and hasn't stopped since.

Posted in Adventure on Oct 26, 2022

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A Decade to Destination

Submitted to Contest #6

Richard knew it was time but self-denial is powerful. The last six months the signs have been everywhere. The gentle hum of the motorhome engine was soothing and familiar, focus on that. His eyes darted at all the signs telling motorists what exits were coming up for what destination. That used to be exciting but now they were like a social media feed, overwhelming and familiar. The excitement was gone. They’d taken this road before. He glanced at Karen next to him, beautiful as always but she’s been silent for an hour now, another sign. A q...

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Discharge

Submitted to Contest #6

DISCHARGEI discharged myself from hospital in a state of blind panic. My stay there had done nothing to counter-act my long standing phobia. They tried to stop me, said they had still not worked out what caused my mysterious, painful skin condition and that it could be to do with my kidneys, and that they needed to take some  more tests and that I had not finished the course of antibiotics. They tried to persuade me, and in retrospect I feel sorry for one particular nurse, who was very kind, but I was having none of it.&n...

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Rules of the Road

Submitted to Contest #6

Mickey stopped counting how many days he had been on the road years ago. Time was no longer measured in days of the week, months, or even years. Instead, he measured the passage of time by the deepening of the wrinkles around eyes and the length of his hair. He didn’t know how long it’d been, but looking in the mirror, it seemed like a century. Gone was the wide-eyed youth who had set out on this journey, replaced by a grim specter. Soon he would have spent more years of his life on the road than not. The thought almost made Mickey laugh.He ...

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Storm

Submitted to Contest #6

   We’ve been running from it for ten years now. Trying desperately to keep in front of it, to avoid the fate that befell the rest of the world. Now our time is at an end, we have nowhere to run, so we stay. We set up camp and we sit and wait for our end to come. Some of the men are on their knees, praying to whatever god they worship, whatever god they think still exists on this desolate ruin of a planet. Others just sit and stare at the horizon, knowing that death will be upon them before long. A death that has come to every...

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Heroes Don't Exist Until Ten Years Later...

Submitted to Contest #6

Tony Chou sleeps at the petrol stations because there is nothing to go home to but an empty fridge and three unopened bottles of lemonade. Tony Chou makes friends with the people who sleep with cardboard or newspaper for blankets and we’d discuss what it means to love and live. Maybe he’ll wander a city one day like a lost atom in a haze of Monday blues, late nights and reports due on Friday. Every now and then, he gets into his old second-hand car and gets lost in places where he’s never been lost before. But he still did keep a phone with...

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The Search

Submitted to Contest #6

There’s over 4 million miles of road in the United States alone. Traveling 500 miles a day, minimum, means it would take about 22 years to cover every navigable road. 10 down, 12 to go I guess. I’ve been to every major tourist attraction: Niagara Falls in New York, the Grand Canyon in Arizona, Yosemite Park in California; I’ve been nearly everywhere, more than once, and check every tourist attraction in each state I pass through. I had to trade in the jeep a few years ago. The vans better for travel, especially when I want to pull into ...

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2010 Mercedes Benz

Submitted to Contest #6

It was the summer of 2009 and we were living in Denver, my wife and I, that is. We were bored with the silent grind and toil of the same ole same ole, and having the feeling of never getting out alive. We decided the only one true way to live was just that, to live. We had made many quick decision, life-changing choices before - quitting jobs, moving to crime-ridden neighborhoods - completely switching our lives as we saw fit has never been a problem. Hell, take the way we got together, an accidental drunken kiss set the whole thing in motio...

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The Feeling of Midnight Diners

Submitted to Contest #6

Prompt: Write a story about someone who started a road trip 10 years ago and hasn’t stopped sinceAuthor: Sarah Guerrero Midnite diners were the bread and butter of long-time road trips. They had greasy, delicious food, a usually wonderful waitstaff and no fucks to give. The best part of the diners was, of course, the feeling that they gave you. It was a mix between too present and not there, when you’re so tired but wound so tight that you’re either gonna fall asleep in your hashbrowns or have a breakdown in the bathroom. It created this per...

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Now I'm Home

Submitted to Contest #6

You’ve been driving for a long time. Not like this is weird, this has become a part of everyday life by now. Your in the middle of Mexico City, attempting not to get stuck in traffic. Finally, after a long wait in traffic, you turn into a hotel. You park your small blue van and quickly head inside.You book a room for the night and get handed your long-awaited key-card to your room. On normal nights you would stay in your van, but tonight felt different. You wanted to look at Mexico’s bright stars on a warm spring night, wishing for nothing e...

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Curveballs

Submitted to Contest #6

Molly Hamond loved her life. Why? Because in reality, she was living the dream most people just wished they could achieve. Okay, maybe not everyone’s dream, but she’d definitely defied the odds of a traditonal 35 year-olds life. 10 years ago she’d be stuck at a secretary job at an Insurance company in Atlanta, GA. Yes, there are much, much worse occupations you could be doing at 25. But there was also very little sense of adventure in your life when all your doing is answering phones and struggling everyday to get the copy machine to wo...

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Amazing Journey

Submitted to Contest #6

 It had started as a joke between my best friend Andrew and I. He had said I would never leave our quaint little town of Hisbiscus so I set out to prove him wrong. I had just turned eighteen and was itching to explore the reaches beyond the tiny one-lane road I had been born and raised in. A car for graduation from my loving parents as well as a sizable amount of money to start me on my journey into adulthood set me up to take the leap to prove Andrew wrong. I tossed what few belongings I had gathered, thinking I wouldn’t be gone long, ...

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The Wandering Quester

Submitted to Contest #6

“Let me tell you about the Wandering Quester.” Jax looked spooky, with the fire illuminating his elfish face. He leaned forward like he was about to tell us a secret. “Ten years ago, when we were but toddlers, there was a man, and an old street witch told him he was descended from a great dragon. Upon learning this, vanity and conceit began to consume him. He treated his neighbors and colleagues as if they were but grime underfoot. They believed they had to put up with him, or he would unleash his dragon powers on them. But they soon realise...

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The Perpetuity of Red Lights

Submitted to Contest #6

and so instead of hanging around in one piece of shit town that came right after and right before an even bigger piece of shit town, I just carried on driving because what else was there for me to do?  It was never the plan, but how many times can anyone say they’ve followed their plan? Especially when everything gets fucked up. FUBAR, that’s what we used to say at university. We were being melodramatic, of course. It was often quite easy to recognise what had happened, but it at least turned a shitty situation into something we could l...

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Write a story about someone who started a road trip ten years ago and haven’t stopped since

Submitted to Contest #6

“Girl if you don’t get up and get ready for school you know the drill we go to school around here” that was my mother’s voice a day before I decided to leave, I didn’t know where I was going but I knew I was leaving from here. I was in my last days of my senior year and was not happy with my outcome. I didn’t have good grades so I wasn’t getting accepted into one of them fancy college’s, I didn’t have a support system like most people and my boyfriend … yeah well, I’m done with him and after tomorrow NOBODY is holding me back. Even thou...

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Living Again

Submitted to Contest #6

To My Son Finn, I never told you the story of your father and I.The hole was deep, not as profound as the gnawing emptiness that bit him leaving his soul bloodied on the inside. He was studiously staring at the beautiful wooden casket with tiny hearts engraved on the side. She took his heart to the abyss of blackened earth. The magic of his world gone; death ate it over the months cancer whittled away what was left her spirit. Her last breath ragged wheezy, mirroring his own. This is what Xavier was mulling over as the realtor wrapped up th...

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