Quantum Truck III, Fiction Fragment

Premise: Main character has a vehicle that changes according to task.

Previous: [Quantum Truck, A Writing Sketch] & [Quantum Truck II, Fiction]

There are discrepancies. Work in progress.

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She looked out of the apartment window to check out the parking lot. A neon pink, two-seater Porsche Boxster sat square in the middle of her parking space, its lime green roof folded back behind the seats.

A sports car! Cool.

However, she wasn’t sure what that meant. A truck was for moving things. A sedan was for moving people. A sports car was for what?

She checked the car again. Driver. One passenger. Barely space for a shoebox behind the seat.

So. No cargo.

Sports cars were fun on the open highway. Perhaps a courier mission.

Sports cars were small. Perhaps going to a place where parking was tight.

Sports cars are pretty. Perhaps a parade? No, you’d want a big, luxe, four-seater for that.

If it was meant as a personal gift, she’d rather have a Jeep. Low-slung cars could be nerve racking when you are half the height of anything on the road.

Still, this was going to be fun. Whatever it was.

The open top didn’t bother her. She never worried about the vehicle getting stolen, no matter what shape it was currently in. She took standard precautions and assumed the car could look after itself.

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Afterword

I like the idea of a changing car as a story device.

However, I have two issues.

One, I am in need of plot. Standard issue problem for me.

Two, specific to this story, I am in need of an explanation. Why does the car change? Divine will? Aliens? Time travelers? I have no idea. Part one ponders the lack of cause in story. However, the characters may not know the underlying causes, but the author should. I think I may have to fall back on magical realism. As far as I can tell, this means having weirdness in your story but not having to explain it. This feels like a cheap shot. Handwaving does not count as worldbuilding.

Onwards!
Katherine

4 thoughts on “Quantum Truck III, Fiction Fragment

  1. I love the idea of a changing car and the doing random acts of kindness bit. The plot could be a normal, everyday mystery, romance, whatever plot. The car could pop up randomly. Tough to make it suspenseful when we know the car will appear. As for why, I like alien observers.

    Joan

  2. I always have problems coming up with plots. I’ll think of a hook interesting magic system, or a nugget of a scene, but then have no central idea to build it around.

    Forrest

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