One For The Road
It was just a few days before Lucy Christie's thirtieth birthday when she finally had the epiphany.
"This is my life," she said to her traveling companion Carmen. They were both sitting in a roadside diner, Lucy staring at the detailed travel itinerary she'd formulated. "Point A to point B in a certain window of time. No deviations, every moment laid out to the minute."
She glanced up to find her best friend putting down her digital camera and studying her. And why not? Only seconds before, Carmen had been aiming her lens at a framed poster of Marilyn Monroe amidst the clutter of a memorabilia-filled wall, and they'd both been bopping in their booth to a Petula Clark song. Now, it was suddenly all about Lucy's Major Life Crisis.
The epiphany still made her head feel like a gong that'd been rung. "I was looking at travel day five, and I realized I've suspected the truth all ... read full excerpt from One for the Road ebook
