A Car Nation

Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Vestal Review

https://vestalreview.net/a-car-nation/

“There’s a Shell gas station exactly between my mother’s house and my father’s. The first neon S has burned out, so it is a hell Station. 

I walk from one passenger seat to the other trying not to inhale too deeply the gasoline fumes or the smells from the rotating taquito stand inside or the adult sadness leaking from an empty bottle of Mad Dog crushed like crystal on the pavement, the plastic of it all melting…”