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Pushback

While the streets were mostly empty those days, as I rounded the corner into a wooded area I was driving amid a short train of cars. I saw a couple heatedly arguing at the edge of the road in front of a tucked-away apartment complex, and then he pushed her into the road and moved back towards her. Worried but feeling like I couldn’t stop, I honked. Slowing, I pointedly looked out my window at him, silently questioning and pleading with him. He looked up. In the rearview mirror, I saw him step back from the road and from her. 

Rachel Lynn is a tech worker and singer/songwriter living in Austin, Texas. Find Rachel on Bandcamp and on Facebook at Rachel Lynn Music Page.

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