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Two Strangers in a Car
They meet accidentally, they involuntarily begin to see each other, and they begin to think thoughts and ask questions about the past.
I am in the process of writing a novel about the future. The book’s working title is The Last Human in the Milky Way.
In this novel, two emerging people meet by chance, in a world that has apparently gone a bit off the hinges and where humans increasingly seem to be moving.
The two are both on their way away from something; they are two refugees who are on their way to something new and unknown.
One day it dawned on him that great changes had taken place in the neighbourhood and in the wider world. He decided to try to find out what had happened, packed things into his car and started driving.
Somewhere on the road he sees a woman standing on the side of the road, and he stops next to her. They are two strangers who set out on a journey to rediscover the world, a world where great changes have taken place that they are only guessing the consequences of. (From an introduction to the story.)
The two characters lack the safe and accustomed, the fixed frameworks and routines that provide support and help in everyday life…
