The Last Light
The neon sign was still on when I pulled into the lot, and that surprised me.
Stories in Anal tagged size difference, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 13 to 19 minutes. Writers to know: Amber Crossing, Mist Pulse and Ruby Phrase. Readers usually start with “The Last Light” and “The Sewing Machine Bet”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The neon sign was still on when I pulled into the lot, and that surprised me.
I'm twenty-three years old and I've got a good life, thank you very much.
I turned sixty-five in March and I still have not gotten used to the word retired.
The trip was supposed to be my reward.
I still don't know exactly why I said yes to this.
I paid the rental car guy through the app and sat in the driveway for a minute before I got out.
The track is mostly empty by the time I wander back to the pits.
Birthdays stopped being fun for me somewhere around thirty-six.
Two years.
I sat at the bar of the Driftwood Lounge on a Tuesday night, scrolling through another dating app message that went nowhere.
Danny Kimura was twenty-nine years old and he could count on one hand the number of conversations he'd had that lasted longer than a…