The Distant Summer
The bus breaks down. Not with a hiss of steam or a groan of metal. Just a shudder. A stop. Silence. You are in the back. Seat number forty-two. The window is cracked. The air smells of diesel and old wool. "Is it dead?" you ask. The driver, a man named Thomas with hands like dried clay, doesn't turn around. He just stares at the engine block. His shoulders rise and fall. A slow, heavy rhythm....
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