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    Road Rage
    Road Rage
    Road Rage
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    Road Rage

    By Robert Jeschonek

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    Pray you never see Walter Haskell’s headlights in your rear-view mirror. This road-raging vigilante roars up and down the highway, burning rubber as he guns for reckless drivers with his fast and furious moves. Walter plays for keeps in his war to make the roads safe—and redeem himself for a terrible accident that totaled his life. But one night, the road warrior becomes a moving target, as the actual highway comes to life and strikes back. It's the ultimate case of road rage as the haunted pavement turns against Walter, racing him through a nightmare journey where the final exit is Hell itself.

    Don't miss this edgy, exciting, and surprising horror thriller in the tradition of Stephen King. It’s the latest story from award-winning storyteller Robert T. Jeschonek, a master of unique and unexpected fiction that packs a punch.

    Reviews

    "...Robert Jeschonek is a towering talent..." – Mike Resnick, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author

    "Robert Jeschonek is the literary love child of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman—his fiction is cutting edge, original, and pulsing with dark and fantastical life. His stories suck me in and refuse to let me go until the last page..." – Adrian Phoenix, critically acclaimed author of The Maker's Song series and Black Dust Mambo

    "Jeschonek ́s stories are delightfully insane, a pleasure to read..." – Fábio Fernandes, Fantasy Book Critic

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    About the Author

    Robert T. Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, comics, essays, articles, and podcasts have been published around the world. DC Comics, Simon & Schuster, and DAW have published his work. According to Hugo and Nebula Award winner Mike Resnick, Robert "is a towering talent." Robert was nominated for the British Fantasy Award for his story, "Fear of Rain." His young adult urban fantasy novel, My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, is now available from Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and received a starred review from Booklist. Visit him online at www.thefictioneer.com. You can also find him on Facebook and follow him as @TheFictioneer on Twitter. For news on his latest online projects, visit the Pie Press website at www.piepresspublishing.com.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Jeschonek
    Release dateSep 5, 2011
    ISBN9781465824691
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      Book preview

      Road Rage - Robert Jeschonek

      Road Rage

      ROAD RAGE

      A HORROR STORY

      ROBERT JESCHONEK

      Pie Press

      CONTENTS

      Also by Robert Jeschonek

      Road Rage

      About the Author

      Special Preview: Bloodliner

      ROAD RAGE

      Copyright © 2023 by Robert Jeschonek

      www.bobscribe.com

      Cover Art Copyright © 2023 by Ben Baldwin

      www.benbaldwin.co.uk

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved by the author.

      Pie Press Logo

      Published by Blastoff Books

      An Imprint of Pie Press Publishing

      411 Chancellor Street

      Johnstown, Pennsylvania 15904

      www.piepresspublishing.com

      ALSO BY ROBERT JESCHONEK

      Bloodliner

      Daddy’s Little Girl

      Diary of a Maggot

      Dionysus Dying

      ROAD RAGE

      As soon as the two-lane road opened up into four lanes, Walter Haskell swung his mammoth Dodge SUV out from behind the Honda compact he’d been chasing and jammed the accelerator to the floor.

      All right, you son of a bitch, said Walter as the Dodge bolted ahead of the Honda. "See how you like it."

      Heart pounding, Walter pitched the SUV back into the right lane in front of the Honda and immediately slowed down. The Dodge dropped from seventy miles an hour to sixty, then fifty...and kept slowing.

      When the Dodge hit forty-five, the hotheaded ballcap-wearing kid at the wheel of the Honda tried to dart into the left lane and get past Walter...but Walter wouldn’t let him. Every time the kid slipped left, Walter swerved in front of him, cutting off his escape. When the kid veered right, Walter followed and intercepted him there, too.

      In his rear-view mirror, Walter could see the pissed-off jerk screaming and cursing and making obscene gestures. It made Walter feel like a trillion bucks.

      Justice was served...Walter’s version of it, anyway. He’d seen the kid tormenting an elderly couple in an Oldsmobile, first tailgating them, then passing on the double yellow and trapping them in a snail’s pace crawl for five miles or so. The couple had finally pulled over, defeated, and the kid had roared away into the night, penalty-free because there hadn’t been a cop in sight.

      But he hadn’t counted on Walter. Walter had followed at a distance, watching everything...and Walter was a guy who took road rage personally, even when it wasn’t

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