Bird of Prey: What happens to cars when they "die"?

Well, for the most part they end up in a wrecking yard (a.k.a. junkyard) where they are dismantled. After all useful parts have been salvaged a car crusher is used to make the remains more compact and ready for the scrap metal smelter. But some cars, some especially "good" cars, end up in a car graveyard (image above). A car graveyard is basically a resting place where a car owner (or shall we say aficionado) leaves his or her dead cars to the elements. Not particularly environmentally friendly, I agree, but sentimental nevertheless. After all the practice of giving cars personalities is quite common. For one, you surely know people who name their cars?

Bird of Prey: A Dead Possum on the Meaning of Life

I THINK I GOT IT.
GOT WHAT?
THE MEANING OF LIFE.
WHAT IS IT THEN?
WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO KNOW!

OH, STOP THAT! WHY DOES EVERYONE WHO CLAIMS TO KNOW THE MEANING OF LIFE FEEL THE NECESSITY TO BE ARROGANT ABOUT IT?
RELAX, I'M JUST TEASING YOU.
OH... WELL ALRIGHT THEN, BUT IT BETTER NOT BE SOMETHING LIKE 42.
NO, IT'S NOT 42. IT'S THIS.
THIS WHAT?
THIS- US TALKING.
THAT'S IT?
YEA, I'M PRETTY SURE... LIFE IS A DIALOG.

Excerpt from "Bird of Prey", Ivan Danou © 2009

December writing

"Lena" has been put to rest, or cook as some would say, for awhile. Future rewrite is likely but for now the focus is on finishing up a couple of other texts. The first one- "Bird of Prey"- I mentioned awhile back. It's a philosophical rumination on mankind's significance in the natural world, and a meditation on responsibility. The second piece is a story called "Fences" that deals with opinion forming, and the discrepancies there of. Once those two texts have been finished, I'd like to do a major revision, going back to "The Breakers", and then look into publishing them. Apart from "End Dream" which as a piece of gay fiction will be shopped accordingly, the other four will be sent to literally journals. The edited versions will not be posted online, and most likely, the texts will be taken down upon publication, but drafts and sample passages will still appear here on this blog. Stay tuned for "Bird of Prey" and "Fences".