To Sea Inside

Flash Fiction

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The brassy clamoring of car horns creates a cacophony, pierced only by drivers shouting and a wailing alarm siren. Simon realizes the traffic will not budge. Amid all the noise, his body registers and isolates a deep, low vibration, and for a moment he feels inside a giant dynamo. The can of Cola on his dashboard rattles and falls. The rumble becomes a sound.