by Alana Hart
God damn it, Maine. I fucking hate you.
Joe slowed the car as she pulled around a bend in the road, passing a sign that pointed in the direction of an Indian Reservation. The sign pointing in the direction Siri commanded her to go simply read ‘Docks.’
Exciting stuff, she thought.
Joe pulled around another corner, and Siri burst to life again.
“Turn left onto Seaside Drive and the destination is on your left.”
“Oh, thank God,” Joe said, turning the wheel. This road was just as hidden beneath snow, its boundaries betrayed only by the tree line on either side. She rolled along the road, trudging a path through well over a foot of snow. The road twisted and turned, betraying nothing beyond trees and blackened openings into surrounding forest – the only sign of side streets and driveways. She passed a gated road on the left and rounded a final corner as Siri assured her The Blackrock Inn was just ahead on the left. The road dipped with such a suddenness that Joe’s stomach shot into her throat. She pressed her back into the seat, fighting to keep her breathing steady. The tires had traction, she was going slow enough. If she just maintained this speed, she should make it to the Inn without any skid outs. Right?
She pulled around the corner at five miles an hour, and the world around her took on a strange depth. She stared through the windshield at the strange glow of the world. A light in the distance flashed toward her, then disappeared. She crept down the hill another few feet, watching the black ahead. The light appeared again. A lighthouse. They were right on the water.
Joe turned back toward Rory. “Baby. You awake? We’re almost there, sweetheart.”
Rory grumbled, but did not move.
“There’s a lighthouse out on the water. You can see it even through -”
Joe turned her eyes back to the road just in time to see a massive black shape bound onto the shoulder. She slammed on the brakes, twisting the wheel away to keep from hitting the bear, but her wheels locked in the snow instantly, and the car began to pick up speed on the downward slope.
“No, No!” Joe chanted to herself as she pumped the brakes desperately, the massive bear by the road now a distant memory as her car slid down the road, faster and faster. She fought to turn the wheel, but there was no direction to the skid – the car was going down. Down, down, and hell bent on doing it at high speeds. Suddenly, trees appeared in the light of the high beams, and Joe turned back to brace her daughter as the car dropped from beneath her, plummeting a sickening distance. She held her breath, bracing in the eerie silence that fell over the car as it dropped off the edge of the road.
A sound like a shotgun blast rattled the car as they made impact. Joe saw white, then black. Then the pain began to set in.
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