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Daydream Believer: A Very Short Story
I was just 100 miles from my final destination, a cross country trip by automobile from New York to LA.
As I pulled out on the freeway from the roadside gas station, there stood a mirage in a tank top and cut off jeans. I braked immediately.
"How far you going?" she asked.
"End of the road, Los Angeles," I replied. "And you?"