Scryptic Studios - Flash Fiction Fridays: Passenger

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Caleb Monroe

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Flash Fiction Fridays: Passenger
Posted: 2007/09/10 09:08

PASSENGER

I felt a tickle on my hand and held it up to see a tiny black ant making its way through the almost invisible hairs on the back of my finger. I caught it with the thumb and forefinger of my other hand, grasping it tight enough that it couldn’t escape but light enough so as not to smash it. My first instinct was to roll down the car door and throw it out, but we were on the inner lane of a street awash in traffic and it would surely be ground under a tire out there. I knew in a few moments we would be turning onto a smaller residential street, so I determined to hold onto it until then, where it would be safer.

I realized the ant must have gotten into the car somehow when we were at my mother-in-law’s. There were tiny ants like this all over the place in her driveway area and on the nearby plants.

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