The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature

“Life Story” by Lauren “Elyse” Phillips (58 word micro-fiction) 2007

Fiction

All that dreaming comes down to this: The sky is full of birds pushing south and I am northbound again. My back seat is a bookshelf- Bukowski, Capote, a few other derelicts. McMurtry rides shotgun, a story about long hair in Texas. I edge it up to 90 as the cat settles in around the gearshift.