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He pulled over to admire it, gleaming in

  • He pulled over to admire it, gleaming in the morning light. The smooth, pale stalk and atop: an inverted triangle. "Give way" it stated, cryptically. Wasting no to time, he snapped
  • the Give Way sign off at the base of its stalk and stuffed it in his car. It would make a nourishing soup. He drove carefully and at last found some shy traffic cones grazing on th
  • e grass of the berm, took them out with his high powered rifle and field dressed them in a parking lot. Traffic cones were tasty when prepared properly, but what he really craved
  • was human roadkill. Uh-huh & here you thought this was going to be another whimsical tale on FoldingStory, didn't you? Nay, my friends, for this is the dark saga of The Highway Man
  • , speaker for the dead, solver of unsolved highway homicides, and master of the ruggedest jawline this side of Tom Selleck circa 1986. Today, The Highway Man had unearthed a triple
  • axle trailer from the overpass pond next to the Susquehanna turnpike. The rig was missing. Highway Man smelled a triple murder & slipped his wetsuit over his muscular torso.
  • But something bothered Highway Man, where could the rig have gone? A sound like millions of trash compactors exploded across the highway. A giant robot said, "I am Optomis Prime
  • And I know who you are from your biometrics." I reminded Optimus Prime I put Anthony Soprano for years on my credit cards and shut my eyes for the drivers license photos.
  • Suddenly Anthony and Optimus Prime flicker. Then they flicker again. They are still talking but you have noticed a lag now between image and meaning and intent. They will never kno
  • w who they really are, or what their lives meant...if anything...then they flicker and flicker at an every slowly dying cadence until...one...last...flick....and then....nothing.

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