Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #15 June 2015 | Page 87

My spirits soared high as music pounded out of my
car’s speakers. I was on the open road; it was almost
midnight, and I was finally free. My entire life I had
worked for a small shipping company in Ennis, Texas.

The hours were long, the pay was pathetic, and everyone that worked there was miserable. I thought that
my fate would be to stay at that place forever when the
unthinkable happened: I found another job.

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