Bike
This bicycle is lying in the street not for any obvious reason. No one got hit by a car or swerved to miss a dog and fell off it. No one got dragged off it to be abducted. This isn’t that kind of story. It fell off a van. It was not broken when it first fell off the van but it broke when it fell. The van was being driven by a man named Adam Bunk. It was getting dark outside and Adam and his friends were going camping and mountain bike riding in a nearby woods. Their gear and their bikes were attached to the top and the back of the van. Their friend Bryce didn’t have a mountain bike so he brought a regular street bike. The others laughed at him but he swore that he could use it to bike in the woods. Said he’d done it a thousand times. You always had to take what Bryce said with a pinch of salt so the others did not believe him, but they did what they usually did which was to humor him. Sure, man. They said. They were blaring their music and someone was passing around the van so no one noticed when Bryce’s bike just…fell.