As friends on a car trip recall the road games they played as children, their reminiscence takes a sinister turn.

Friends play road games until someone suggests the one where you move your head to make a speck on the glass avoid obstacles in the scenery. The driver recalls how, as a child, he imagined a figure running beside the car, but his runner looked grotesque and stared at him. This disturbs the passengers. He remembers how he ignored the figure, and wished it’d go away, and recalls one summer when the AC in his family’s car broke, and they rolled down all the windows. While passing through a tunnel, he asked the figure why it always ran beside the car and stared, and the runner responded that it is “waiting for the accident.”

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Horror Short (Bloodstream Anthology)