Escape

This is Chapter 12 of my book “Follow the Light”

And we are off, bleary-eyed, into the Ayrshire morning. Emmy looks gorgeous, her short blonde hair and a smile that I would never tire of seeing.

My car sitting on the street coughs up a cloud of exhaust fumes as I turn the key. A few commuters on their way to the station do a double-take, but we breeze past them, leaving them choking in our wake.

We get a good run of lights as we hit the dual carriageway.

I light up a smoke, and she flicks through the radio until she finds something she likes. The radio crackles to life with one of those old songs you know but can’t quite place.

For a moment, it’s like we aren’t ghosts at all.

We sing along to the chorus.

She looks at me, and I look straight back.

The engine opens up on the dual carriageway and we are cutting through the Ayrshire morning.

We’re analogue in a digital age; we’re radio in the streaming age.
We are the words written on the page.

And we don’t give a fuck if that’s good enough for you.

She laughs.

Welcome to the moment.

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(c) Paul Andrew Sneddon