Picking Up God in a Pepsi Truck

Daniel Williams
Curious
Published in
9 min readJan 17, 2021

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I want excitement and magic in my life. So I pick up hitchhikers.

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Hitchhikers make me feel like I’m having an adventure. Anything could happen. These mysterious walkabout souls might teach me how to locate hobbits. Or they might start a knife fight that results in a cool scar. Or maybe they’ll tell me a wonderful story, and I will write it and become rich and mighty, then spend the rest of my life searching…

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Daniel Williams
Curious

A poverty-stricken, soft Batman by night. Illustrator and writing teacher by day. Previously: McSweeney’s, Slackjaw.