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him some room to get off the road. She was cute up close. A smile would have helped, but cute nonetheless, in a scraggly-haired, brooding sort of way.

So far, so good. He lowered the passenger window, imagining the best possible exchange. Something like…

“Want a ride?”

“You bet!”

With that in mind, he spoke his line to perfection.

She gazed at him a beat too long for somebody following the best possible script. And she crossed her arms. Bad signs. A car roared by, buffeting them with draft. She waited for it to muscle past them, waited until silence hung heavy in the air. “Not with the likes of you,” she said.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J.M. Fraser is a businessman and writer. He’s living the dream with his better half, Mary, in the suburban prairies west of Milwaukee. When not doing whatever it is that they do, they spend as much time as they can with their two daughters, Carolyn and Natalie, and a cute little grandson named Colin.