Getaway
I rented a car for the weekend and drove into the mountains.
Lately, the city had been getting to me, even more than usual. In the nearly ten years I’d lived there, the city had grown and changed beyond recognition. The growth possessed a purpose of its own, one that the city’s people were a means to.
Nobody was in control. That much I knew.
Snow clung to the mountain’s highest reaches, though it was well into July. The mountains were a reminder of the pre-human past. The city was a portent of the post-human future.