Jan had been in the middle of conversation when he noticed they had just come off the freeway. He was explaining to everyone in the car how he felt that in the post-modern age the paradigm of reason had become the expanse of doubt. But the freeway had interrupted his dialogue in same the way a hard rap to the head would interrupt any person’s natural emotional course. It was awkward to be so in tune to him, and suddenly have all the aching curiosities in the air broken by only his silence.

It only was a brief second, but it was enough for the lifting of eyebrows, the glance of eyes in the rearview mirror, and Continue reading →