The Holiday Truce

*******Short Story******



Lena Phillips is working in a male dominated field. To cope with her coworkers’ extreme dislike, she adopts an attitude of rudeness. But one fellow engineer is different. Frank Campbell can be considerate, respectful, helpful, and even flirty, but only when no one is watching.



When Lena is selected to attend a professional conference in Colorado, she asks Frank to attend with her. However, instead of the friendliness she had hoped for, bickering becomes the order of the day. During their journey they find themselves on a lonely country road. Because of their arguing they have an accident which leaves them with only each other to depend on.



Can they resolve their differences in order to survive? Or will the wilderness become their undoing?