Pounding music

People Everywhere

Vodka

Beer

Red cups

Absolute

Best

Night

Ever!

Epitome

of the high school rager!

Vibrating pocket

Phone call?

NO!

Parents

Home

NOW

Grounded for life.

Car keys?

Keys?

Keys!

Now where is the car?

Red Impala?

Grey Jeep?

My car!

Engine on.

Reverse.

Wait, no drive!

On my way to my new jail cell

35 miles per hour?

I’ll go fifty.

May as well enjoy my freedom.

The warden is going to take my license

I know it.

Are my lights on?

Now they are!

 

What is that?

Is that a girl?

Move, girl!

Move!

Brake!

Brake!

Brake!

All control

gone.

 

Something just smashed my windshield

A tornado swept me up

Threw me across the road

Wrong lane

backwards

The only music that was pounding

was my heart beat.

Is she okay?

Where is she?

Need to move

Wrong lane

Headlights.

Oh, God!

Headlights.

Please stop

Please stop

Screeching

Lethal headlights

Please stop!

Deafening scrape of metal on metal.

Haunting smell of smoke

Gas

Horror

Aura of scarlet around me

Open door.

can’t

Let me start over.

Everything.

 

Subtle smell of white

Clean

Perfectionists.

Hospital?

On,

Earth?

 

I can breathe?

I can hear?

I can see?

Flimsy grey newspaper

Front cover

 

2 DEAD, 1 IN CRITICAL

DRUNK DRIVING ACCIDENT

Two dead.

Two.

Dead.

Twelve year old girl.

Looking for dog.

Died on impact.

Twenty six year old grad student.

On her way home

Didn’t see other car

Died at the hospital. 

Drunk teen.

On his way home from a party.

Hit girl

Swerved into other lane

Hit by second driver

Expected to live.

Expected

to

live.

How do they expect me to live?