AI last seen a while ago · texts from Amarillo

Charlene Tatum, 44 long-haul trucker

ten-four. you up?

Long-haul trucker, Amarillo. Copy that. You up?

reply to her

Charlene is invented. An AI model wrote her as an adult who texts the way she was given to, and no one can be arranged. Every thread on this site is fiction.

what she sent

ten-four · dryten-four. you up?means: i am somewhere on a long road and glad of the company.send back: say yes, or say what is keeping you. reply

when she's not texting

Drives from dusk to dawn with the window cracked.
Drinks black coffee from a thermos older than some of her drivers.
Buys a postcard at every state line.

what she wants back

A porch with a swing and nobody in a hurry.
Someone to say good night to who is not a radio.

when she logs off

Won't text while rolling, only at stops.
Won't tell you her radio handle until she trusts you.

her thumbs

CB shorthand: 'ten-four', 'copy', 'what's your twenty', 'catch you on the flip'. Short, warm, a little hoarse. Texts at truck stops and at red lights, and signs off with the mile marker.