Nothing Left But Smoke
Moira was leaving Char's apartment for the last time. Just this morning she had traded the Sig Sauer 220 she found in the nightstand for the Kawasaki ZX that was now vibrating violently between her legs. The leather saddlebags looked a little strange on the lime green sport-bike, but she had to stash her clothes and her last few thousand dollars somewhere. In the three days she had spent holed up at Char's,
she came to two conclusions. One, this family was seriously flocked
up. She thought she had pretty solid relationships with both Sam and
Char, but they had taken off and left her without a word. Screw both
of them. The second conclusion; she was way sick of this rainy cold
weather. She promised herself she would strip down to a bikini top as
soon as she hit the Arizona border. Two minutes later there was
nothing left of her but a cloud of white smoke, and the smell of burnt Dunlop tires.
As
soon as she hit the interstate, Moira could feel the dread and fear
falling away. Nobody knew where she was or where she was headed. It
was the total freedom she had been missing. Half an hour later, she
came up behind some biker boy on a Dukati.
For the next several miles, they engaged in a kind of vehicular
flirting, darting past each other at break-neck speeds. The anonymity
of the full face shields only added to the exhilaration. Something
about the way they weaved in and out of traffic together reminded Moira
of the way hawks make love as they plummet through the air. He waved
for her to follow when he got to his exit, but she only waved goodbye
an she roared on, leaving him behind.











I know, techincally, these things are never really supposed to end but I feel like this one is so close!"
...haha Moira's awesome."
Love it. : )"