Fleeing the South to New York, Nearly a Drowning.
We were driving through the backroads of a southern state. Everything was wet like after weeks of gray and torrential rain. You couldn't tell the difference between the road and the brush unless you consciously paid attention to the way the tires rolled over the surface. We were driving to New York, nothing there but getting away from where we were. There was a sense that we were escaping the people here, their limited understanding of who we could be and what we were capable of. The road that we drove on eventually came to a point where we were seeing houses. On the one side of the road was a dense forest, wet and autumnal, all branched and drowned, and on the other was a bigger cabin-like structure, more a modern home than a rural retreat, but a cabin nonetheless. The front of their house had no sidewalk, but instead a wooden dock or a deck, something that looked like a homemade sidewalk where they could walk through the growing brush. A big puddle was between the deck and the fo...