/lit/ - Literature

read and comment - dear /lit/, here's an excerpt from my book, does this generate some interest for the reader to read on?

also, if you have excerpts, post them for comments!


"We were on the road for more that three days now, we could have
easily arrived at Palo Alto by now if we didn’t take so many
detours. Well, we were still in time and I remember one particular
moment of us driving and we had to slow down because of an accident:
the collision of a Ford and a brand new Jaguar XJ was slowing down
the traffic. The blue-red lights of the police car were flashing
silently, and we passed the cordons just to see the black body bags.
It was a horrendous sight. For some reason, these bodybags always,
always disturbed me - but I guess it is just a human feeling. The
Jaguar was totaled as the Ford crashed into its front. Jesus was
driving, so I could hardly get my mind off of the accident, but I
remember him telling a story from his childhood. He’d recount this
over a beer in the first week of university last year - we’d had
quite some rounds in a bar, not far from our dorm. The bar was sort
of dark but the beer tasted so damn good. Jesus looked at me in a
mysterious way as great storytellers would start their stories and
he began:
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