After The Storm

lasergraph 6 stories

Summary

Carissa didn't know how one rainy night and a stranger would change her life. She would find an adventure, a puzzle and a new life, The night was cold and rainy, with fog so thick you could barely see the road ahead. Carissa was taking things really slow maneuvering her older SUV around each curve of the two lane highway. She had spent the holidays with friends but was headed back to her empty country home. She had taken two weeks off from her job at the hospital where she worked the night shift as a trauma nurse. Carissa kept moving forward, slow and steady, with her low beams and fog lights attempting to light a path for her. Her fear was always a deer running across the road because she had seen the results of that in the emergency room enough times. Driving slow paid off as she saw something across the highway just ahead. She slowed and then stopped as she got close enough to get out and investigate. It appeared to be a body and that became more obvious when she got close enough to see it. She ran to it and checked the pulse first thing, which she found present but weak. She had been a nurse for a lot of years and knew how to move bodies but she had never moved one out of the highway before. She couldn't call 911, she had no signal in this isolated area. She knew the highway would have areas under water wi