In her hand was a pistol.

All that good feeling of salt, fat, and protein was gone now. He tried to hold his piss in.

"You following me?"

"No!"

He recognized her. She was the girl from the  gas station .

"Fancy seeing you here. Don't tell me you and I happened to arrive here...

She still had over three quarters tank of gas when she stopped into the  gas station . She had stopped in here before. It was locally owned. She liked the man who ran the place. He was from the midwest just like her. She wondered if he would remember her....

Imogen Howe was exiting the zone. For five hours she had driven nonstop. The same ten songs playing on repeat. She had felt like a machine the entire time. There was nothing that was going to stop her. She passed by each car smoothly. Hit no potholes. Hardly touched the...

She was at a  gas station called Chip's. Out in the middle of nowhere with nothing else around.

Imogen Howe was pleasantly surprised to fill her car up at gas station that didn't belong to a franchise. She couldn't remember the last time she used any station other than Marathon,...

When he noticed the power was out, the first thing he did was locate the flashlight and the lantern . Both battery powered. Then he checked how much battery his phone had. 83 percent. Not bad. He turned it on low power mode. Reduced the brightness. Made sure the internet...

"Buy Bitcoin Here!"

The gas station beckoned you to buy bitcoin at a kiosk inside. A decade ago Max had purchased a nontrivial amount. A friend had gotten him to buy this obscure entity at what seems today an absurdly low price. At the time he was confused by it all....

Will wasn't like everyone he knew back out West. For example he didn't want an electric car. He didn't know anybody out West who didn't find electric vehicles superior. In fact nobody out West even considered the possibility that anyone would prefer a gas guzzling  car . His friends assumed...

What the hell are you apologizing for?

Will took a breath then told the gas station clerk, you're right. I didn't do anything wrong.

Exactly! The world is always trying to put all the blame on the little guys. Like I can guarantee you that my boss and his boss is going...

That night, she stayed at the  cafe later than she should've. Had she left with the final employee two hours ago then she would probably already be showered and ready for bed. Comfy at home.

Instead she was now leaving into an empty parking lot to the sounds of the summer...

He estimated his car to have burned around 5,300 gallons of gasoline . This was based on the fact that it got 23 miles per gallon locally and 30 MPG on the highway.

The odometer approached 135,000 miles. The visualization of that number provided some sense of joy. Like no matter...