The Empty Chair #10 - (5 minute freewrite challenge)[prompt: California]

Jeff blinked, wiped his brow. Irritated at the dust entering his truck. Or was it not....

The latest Day 110: 5 Minute Freewrite: Tuesday - Prompt: California

If you missed my last freewrites on the theme, here are the links from latest to last:-

1. The Empty Chair #9 - (5 minute freewrite challenge)[prompt: yard sale]
2. The Empty Chair #8 - (5 minute freewrite challenge) [prompt: Palimpsest]
3. The Empty Chair #7 -Weekend Freewrite 2/3/2018 - Single Prompt Option: Airplane
4. The Empty Chair #6 - (5 minute freewrite challenge) [prompt: The smell from within]
5. The Empty Chair #5 - (5 minute freewrite challenge) [prompt: Elephant]
6. The Empty Chair #4 - (5 minute freewrite challenge) [prompt: Cigarettes ]
7. The Empty Chair #3 - (5 minute freewrite challenge) [prompt: Cracker]
8. The Empty Chair #2 - (5 minute freewrite challenge) [prompt: Paint]
9. The Empty Chair #1- (5 minute freewrite challenge) [Prompt: hardboiled minds]

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Prompt - California

Jeff blinked, wiped his brow. Irritated at the dust entering his truck. Or was it not? Because try as he did not to look, his eyes lingered to the right, at the gaping space. He sighed, angry at the stupid thought, something about running into what you run from. Was he now running with it - the emptiness?
She always sat there, tuning the squeaky cassette, shuffling her country favorites, singing along, in sync. She used to feed him crisps, as he wheeled the two-seater truck. She was his co-driver, seeing the rear mirrors, alerting him…
And she left him for that ***hole!
“Live in your damn city!” He cursed. Now he pressed the accelerator harder, indifferent to the speedometer.
He might have reached, God knows where, in a jiffy… “Dammit!” he cursed, branching to the roadside petrol station…
Sooner he was back inside, “vroom”, he tweaked the key, when his windscreen knocked.
“Hi”
“Hello”
“A long way from or to home?” The blonde asked.
“Um, aarg..!”
“I am going to California. You?”
God damn it! Why California of all places!?

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