Constantine Bakopoulos

The Gift

On the second day of a three-day road trip, Mona and Grant drove through Guymon, Oklahoma, in search of a clean bathroom and fresh coffee. They were headed from Cedar Rapids to Los Angeles in the minivan Grant had converted into a camper over the holiday break, and, in which, they’d spent New Year’s Eve, watching the sunset at a county park and ringing in 2021 at six p.m. instead of midnight, knowing they’d never stay awake.