Land On Me: A Novel by Corr Matthew R

Author:Corr, Matthew R.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quill Hawk Publishing
Published: 2021-08-25T16:00:00+00:00

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“Take a left at Perkins,” Caleb said as he pointed. I was more than happy to go wherever he asked me to. I imagined us as Lewis and Clark. “So what do you do when you’re not driving me around?” He glanced at me with a smirk.

“I write a lot,” I said as I turned the wheel, pulling onto Perkins Street. “Read books. When I have time I mean, homework and football keep me pretty busy.”

“I never would have pegged you as a writer. What do you write, poetry?”

“Fiction, I’ve never actually tried writing poetry,” I said with a nervous chuckle, hoping he wasn’t a poetry buff too.

“Cool. Is that what you want to do, like write books and stuff?”

“Yeah, that’s the dream.” We came to a red light. “I have, like, this weirdly active imagination. I’m constantly picturing myself in absurd situations or coming up with stories in my head. My dreams can get pretty wild too.”

“Okay,” Caleb said as he turned himself toward me in his seat. “What’s in your head right now? Come up with something.”

“All right,” I said as confidently as I could while feeling pressure to impress him. “I look at these traffic lights and I see a love story.” I pointed up to the one we were in front of. “This one is in love with that traffic light across the street.” Then I pointed to the light opposite of us. “They used to be on the same wire, for years and years. Until one of their lights went out. Someone removed the traffic light from the wire altogether to get it fixed. For weeks this one here was left on the wire alone, never thinking it would see its soulmate again. Until the day that the traffic light came back, except they reinstalled it across the street on that wire.” Caleb followed along as I pointed, nodding his head. “They used to change lights in sync when they were on the same wire, but now the only way they can communicate is by displaying the opposite lights to keep the traffic moving.” I paused for a second as the light turned green. I pulled off the brake. “It’s a work in progress,” I shrugged, uncertain that the story was good enough to impress him.

“I like it.” Caleb chuckled. “It’s cheesy, but I liked it.”

“It wasn’t good,” I said, shaking my head in shame. We both busted out laughing.

“No, it wasn’t good,” Caleb said between fits of laughter.

“I’m better than this, I swear!”

Caleb dried his eyes. “I hope I can read your stuff sometime.”

“Me too,” I said as my laugh was calming down. “I write short stories for my school newspaper every month, maybe I’ll let you read one of those.”

“All right.” Caleb rolled down his window. The fast wind felt amazing against my flushed cheeks. I got a whiff of hot dogs as we passed a vendor standing at his cart on the sidewalk. “What’s your favorite book?” Caleb blurted out. “Oh, take a left up here.

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