The Slide
Novelette 7,940 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
"Rally is a dance on wet gravel to the roar of six cylinders and the flutter of turbochargers but I say again, Rally is a dance. I remembered when I discovered this truth, when I stopped jogging in place and began to ice skate on narrow back trails, not so much steering but sliding my jittery rally car through those serpentine bends."
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