Amanda Reilly

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“Swing and Amiss ” by Amanda Reilly

Submitted to Contest #155

The ambulance was in rough shape. All four tires were blown and in pieces all over the roundabout. A giant rock was lodged in the undercarriage. It had come to a stop halfway on the roundabout, halfway off, and drivers were forced to swerve around it. Several cut too wide and drove on the sidewalk. But this was normal Philadelphia driving that would have occurred regardless of a sitting-duck ambulance. Still, the scene was funny in a Philly way, meaning it was one hundred percent avoidable but for the sick humor of God. A young woman steppe...

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