EX2: The Parking Space (standard:other, 1338 words)
Author: kathyg	Added: Oct 02 2003	Views/Reads: 3407/2122	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
A rewrite of my TOF Project. Thanks for the feedback. I didn't know snowflakes had ears either. Thanks for pointing that out.

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into the  snow bank and rush back to the car. The man loses his balance 
but  gets up from the snow bank and runs after the two men just as they 
are opening the car door. He raises his shovel up in the air to hit one 
of the men, but the two men wrestle him to the snow covered ground and 
take the shovel away.One of the men hits the man over the head with the 
shovel several times. Blood covers the snow and the man's limp body 
twitches uncontrollably. The woman gets out of the car and bends down 
over the man. It is hard to tell what she is doing.   She opens her 
mouth to what looks like a silent scream, but one of the men puts his 
hand over her mouth and look around.  She feels his pulse and puts her 
head to his heart. She looks to the one man and shakes her head.  Their 
gestures are animated and they point to the parking space, the man and 
the car. Finally, the one man puts his hands on the other man's 
shoulders and both men start moving. 

One of the men takes the man by the feet and drag him to the back of the
car. The other opens the trunk and puts him inside, closing it quickly. 
They go back to the parking space and attempt to cover up the evidence 
as best they can. Satisfied that no one else saw or heard anything, the 
one man opens the door but looks up and sees the woman in the window 
watching the whole scene. He  gets in the car and takes off. 

A few hours later, another set of headlights comes down the road. It is
the woman returning home from her job at the diner. She approaches the 
house and sees a parking space shoveled out for her and she smiles. Her 
constant torch in the storm has kept a place for her. She gets out of 
the car and looks for the man who is always there for her. He is 
nowhere to be seen. She goes into the house and turns on several 
lights. She sees the woman venturing through the house searching for 
her husband. Opening the front door, the woman returns to her car. She 
examines the parking space. Turning over the snow, she sees traces of 
blood. Her face turns white.  Falling to her knees, she puts her hands 
over her face and her body shakes. The woman's face appears wet with 
tears. Her eyes widen as she spots the woman in the window watching. 
Their eyes lock as if one look can answer all the woman's questions. 
She crosses the street and knocks on her door. The woman in the window 
knows. 


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