Driving on the long stretch of I-90 heading toward Montana with little to no sleep for three days, I had my eyes set on the Rocky Mountains far off in the distance, yet they never seemed to get any closer no matter how fast I drove.

I'd already passed the Black Hills of South Dakota and the Devil's Tower in Wyoming when I felt the beginnings of out of body experiences, which I attributed to sleep deprivation more than anything.

The locals at some rundown diner I'd stopped at for gas and coffee a few hundred miles back spoke about an old Arapaho ghost they called hisei bo'oo nih-eyoo - The lady of the long road.

Laughing off their talismans, I hit the road without a second thought.

But as I looked in the rear-view mirror, dead, hollow eyes were looking back - and the slumped, lifeless body of someone looking strangely like me was in the back seat.

The End

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• I found an online Arapaho dictionary, but I'm sure I slaughtered the language, so please excuse the loose translation. Lady of the Long Road, to my knowledge is a figment of my imagination and not of any folklore.

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