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Martin hit the breaks and looked at the road ahead of him. He expected a quiet, unoccupied country road, one lane per direction. But on the road he saw two grizzly bears fighting. The bears swiped and wrestled and bit each other, slamming their bodies together with the force of an eighteen wheeler hitting a fire truck.

This is all well and good, thought Martin. But I was hoping to actually get home today. He considered taking a short video for TikTok but decided against, instead reflexively reversed onto the empty road behind him until he remembered how to do a 3 point turn.

He looked at the massive dashboard screen of his 2024 Lincoln Nautilus, which stretched from the left door all the way to the right. Google Maps would complain before finding a diversion but whatever, it was time to get going before the bears noticed him. At least that’s what Martin thought, being a Torontonian whose most recent interaction with wildlife was watching a raccoon steal his pizza eight years ago.

Notes

This was written in 15 minutes during a Joy of Writing meetup.

Feedback from The Joy of Writing group

• What was the last sentence again?
  • (might have not been clear?)
• Is the 2024 Lincoln Nautilus your car? What’s going on with the dashboard? That’s soooo wrong!
  • No, it’s definitely not my car.
  • That is a reference to an upcoming (?) car which I read about from The Verge.
• Where is this story going?
  • nowhere
  • but if I had to continue it, the narrator would have even more bear-related incidents