Prompt: 080. pickup truck
1. There was something about having a pickup truck that made friends and family suddenly have to move a bunch of stuff.
A. There was something about having a pickup truck that made friends and family suddenly have to move a bunch of stuff. He hadn’t even had it an entire weekend before his dad was suggesting around the idea of using the truck to move lumber.
“I haven’t even put sixty miles on it yet. Can I have a week or two before I start loaning it out?” he asked, staring into his cup. The last thing he wanted was to look up and see his dad glaring at him.
2. It had been years since anyone had seen him; ever since the pickup truck he was anchored to got hauled off to the junkyard.
A. It had been years since anyone had seen him; ever since the pickup truck he was anchored to got hauled off to the junkyard.
When Emmit died there was no one left to remember that he was haunting his dad’s old truck. And without living minds to give him some semblance of form, he had faded to a shimmer of light. He was a shade without substance, slowly losing his mind to loneliness as color leached out of the world.
He lived in gray misery, forced to stay within ten feet of the truck since it was his only anchor to life. All around him were piles of junked cars and scrap metal. He was waiting for the day they came to crush the truck and he would disappear forever. It made him afraid.
3. After a day of hard work and an evening of mudding, they set up a tent near the pickup truck and climbed into their sleeping bags.
A. After a day of hard work and an evening of mudding, they set up a tent near the pickup truck and climbed into their sleeping bags. He quickly fell asleep as he was tired, but was woken a few hours later by someone crawling over his sleeping bag.
Jolted out of a dream, he froze for a long moment as his sleep-heavy mind tried to figure out what was going on. Then he realized that Yes he was awake, and Yes there was someone on top of him.
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