Please Note: 100% fiction!
Every afternoon at 3:59PM, my grandfather would announce, “All right, news’ on, no one talk,” before slumping back on the couch and turn up the volume.
Honestly, I’ve never found the news particularly interesting. The interesting bits are always during the first 15 minutes and then for the rest of the hour, the anchors would just repeat the information.
That night, though, it was particularly interesting. It showed a car being lifted from the river. Its wheels were missing. I stood closer to the TV as a sense of dread loomed. Oh. My. Gosh, I know whose car that is.
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This is Another Story 
Now that is when news becomes personal. You know whose car it is and I wonder; will we get to find out. In our house people fall asleep during the long repetitive news stories. I switch the TV off.
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I will probably leave that part to your imagination. 😀
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Oh, my!!! The last line says it all! You definitely have my attention! 🚙
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Thank you. It took me a long time to come up with that line. 🙂
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A very interesting twist at the end Yinglan.
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Yes it is, I was trying to end the story but couldn’t figure out how.
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It works well.
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Thank you.
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👍🏼
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I can feel the fear rising in your MC. Well done.
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Thank you.
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Great! Nice tension at the end.
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Thank you.
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I’m wondering what your narrator’s link to that car is. She’s definitely worried. Well told.
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I was thinking an ex, maybe? Or something may had happened to her long ago?
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Now, is that horror or is that guilt at the end?
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I sensed a little bit of both.
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it must be grandpa’s missing car. good question to ask is, how it got there? 🙂
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I think it was one of the MC’s previous lovers.
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That is when the news gets real.
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A nice little twist there at the end. Now I’m wondering who’s car it was and how it got there.
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I feel like it can be one of those stupid things the MC might had done when she was young. I think we all have those moments, right?
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The first part of the story is relatable. Happens in my house, too :). The last line sounds like the beginning of a good story. Whose car is it?
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I think the car can be anyone from the MC’s past. An ex, maybe?
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