Afterlife. Top Story - September 2024.
There was a graveyard of lifeless cars at the bottom of the lake.
Lifeless, in an ironic way— in the way that you see a car as alive when it’s running, because it has a function, even though it’s cold metal all the way through. These ‘dead’ cars, lying full of water in the depths of the lake, were crawling with algae, weeds, and little fish flitting out between the cracks in their windshields. They were pulsing with life. And yet, by the account of any person you asked, they were dead.