TransPlant / by Keri Lopez

“What do you mean you’re James?” she asked the car.

It blinked twice at her. The next song on the radio was his favorite.

A message appeared on her phone.

But it didn’t look like a regular message. It was a series of posts and news articles. Reading them, just the titles, a message formed.

“Passing — Energy Transferred — Definition of — Life Incarnate — Moving Parts.”

The last article had a picture of a person, bloodied and killed by a car. The name of the person in the article was James.

[HELPFUL IS Auditory reference - “I guess we gotta get out of the car”]