An Evening with the Rush Hour Hero
By J.M. Snyder
City bus driver Vic Braunson was on the interstate, heading back to the terminus at the end of his shift, when the woman’s car cut him off. He saw her in his sideview mirror, saw her calculating look as she judged the distance between the eighteen-wheeler in front of her and the lumbering bus Vic drove, and two seconds before she turned on her signal to change lanes, he detected her thoughts…
I can make it.
In the empty bus, Vic heard the words as if she sat right behind him, speaking out loud. Over the past few years, he hadn’t quite managed to block out all the random thoughts that crowded into his brain. He couldn’t shut off the telepathy completely, but at least he was no longer surprised by it. Particularly when a stranger was th
