Permafrost

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M. Schwartz. Permafrost

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M. J. Schwartz

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“Yes, I am here. We’re passing in-between a golf course. Okay, we are on the other side of it. They are getting closer! Please help! Pop! Watch out, they are going to—” The world spun as the small car was smashed again; this time, just behind the rear tires on the driver’s side. Experts later would call it a textbook PIT maneuver. Their car swung to the left, and the tires screamed in protest at the unnatural grind against the asphalt but stopped their shouting when the car flipped and went airborne.

Jeremy had heard about time slowing down in moments of great stress or joy. He had seen it depicted in movies and TV shows like everyone had, but this was the first time he experienced it. As the car was rotating in the air, he could see his father’s hair moving slower, his gym bag floating in the back, and his cell phone bouncing off the windshield. His brain could not quite grasp what was happening, though it did know he was going through a form of trauma. He could feel his body tingle as his brain began flooding it with endorphins attempting to block out the pain receptors and throw him into early onset shock. As the car crashed to the ground, there was a deafening explosion of glass shattering and metal crunching and scratching against the ground. Jeremy’s face was covered in lacerations as everything in his view was upside down and glass from the windows collided with his unprotected face. Jeremy looked over at his father just as he felt weightlessness again for the second time since the car went airborne. He could tell the car was still in motion but could not understand where or why. He looked out the front windshield and watched confused as a steel-gray wall rushed at them.

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