It had been raining most of the day. A kind of sleepy soft Northwest rain. Jack left Clayton's Store with a full cup of coffee and some groceries. He was happy to have coffee and that he was going to Angela's. It would be nice and cozy at her funky cabin. He had about forty miles to drive on the back roads but Jack knew the way well by now.
He turned on his mp3 player and music blasted in the car.
Angela was about twenty five years old and a strawberry blonde with green eyes. She loved to laugh and Jack was excited to see her.
Jack was going about 60 m.p.h. and looking at his phone when the moose came out of the woods right into the road. It was running and wild eyed and it was right in front of him. He didn't have time to think.
"FUCK!"
He slammed the brake and swerved the steering wheel. The road was going downhill right then and the car and the moose collided with a horrific crash. The airbag in Jacks steering wheel burst open. The car and the moose went two different directions. The car careened off the road over the embankment right between two bushes and down a steep gully. The car rolled down the gully, turning over several times, before crashing at an incline into a redwood tree. Smoke and steam poured out of the open hood.
The moose wasn't dead. It was trying to move but at least one leg was broken and blood was pouring out of an open wound. It brayed loudly in pain and blood dripped out of it's mouth. It tried to drag itself off the road but then collapsed in a giant bloody heap.
Angela was making a lasagna at her cabin. The noodles were boiling. She didn't want them to get too soft so she kept checking them. The noodles were hot and hurt her finger. She shook her hand back and forth quickly.
"Ouch."