There Might be a Body in This Car

It’s charcoal grey. The car is. A charcoal grey Honda Civic: Colorado plates. The right front tire is deflated and the back bumper is dented. 

I don’t know when it got there. But it’s been there for months. Since before January and before December; before November. Probably before October too. 

I first took note of it at the end of December. How strange, I thought, that someone with Colorado plates is parked in this lot. Though, no more strange than a car with Nebraska plates to be parked in the same lot. It was snowing that night. 

The next day I saw the car in the same spot with snow piled on it; it hadn’t moved an inch. How strange, I thought. But maybe they just got a ride. Bad driving conditions last night. It was still there when I left that evening. The only change was the snow that melted in the afternoon sun. 

It was still there when I returned in a month. No one had come to collect it over the whole of the month of December. The tire pressure had lessened in all four tires. No other changes had occurred. How strange, I thought, that this car has not moved in two months. But of course, maybe the car had just stopped working. Had to be abandoned. 

How strange though, I thought, that it has not been towed. But maybe they didn’t want to pay for the truck to come. Out of state plates. Probably a student. Probably nothing strange. 

Not sure what to call this. Observational fiction maybe? Just wanted to write something and my overactive imagination took something from my real life and ran with it. Very short, but hey it gets me out of the writer's block!