Fiction
Dark Driveby F. X. James
DeMario Izek Elbanco Vasquez drove with his wife’s head on the passenger seat beside him. His wife’s name was Benita, and on her last day of life as DeMario’s spouse she was thirty-four years, three months, and nineteen days old. On the back seat were the heads of his two daughters, Abella Bibiana and Consuela Elena. They were fraternal twins and both died when they were twelve years, eight months and twenty-two days old. All three heads were placed in plastic sacks that were tied off with strips of bright red ribbon.
DeMario was driving his father’s prized 1968 Plymouth Road Runner, which DeMario had stolen while his father enjoyed his afternoon siesta. The Plymouth carried a 426 CID 7-liter four-speed manual transmission Hemi, producing 425 horses, and
