"I need an alternator," Lucas said, his voice shaking slightly from the cold. "2008 model. Four-cylinder."
He pulled out his phone, the screen cracked and dimming. He typed four desperate words into the search bar: . buy alternator near me
The woman returned, thumping a heavy, heavy cardboard box onto the counter. The brand-new aluminum casing of the alternator caught the shop's fluorescent light, looking like a silver crown in a room full of junk. "That'll be two hundred even," she said. "I need an alternator," Lucas said, his voice