The Long Ride

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Elayne woke up on the driver’s side of her old Honda to see a man who looked just like Tor Johnson in Plan Nine From Outer Space reaching for the handle on the passenger’s side. She screamed and quickly pushed the lock in before he could get to it.

“Don’t touch that!” someone shouted from her side of the car, and she saw her dad through the window, yelling at the Tor look-alike.

“Dad!” She unlocked her own door so her dad could get in and away from the monster. But a tall young man in a suit shoved him aside and yanked her door open, then grabbed her and pulled her out of the car, ignoring her kicks and scratches.

“What do you think you’re doing?” she screamed into his cold, hard face. “Dad!”

Her dad plucked at the young man’s sleeve, ineffectually, until the Tor monster rushed around the car and grabbed him too. Elayne and her dad were dragged across the parking lot toward a ’62 Chevy with a white top and a sky-blue body.

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