Gods of the Neon Age: A Short Story
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As America crashes through the Atomic Age and into the New Frontier, a boy and his mother drive aimlessly state to state in a stolen pickup truck, where they manage an existence on temporary jobs, spare dollars, and spare coins in the search of a home that they can one day call their own.
As money and choices dwindle, the mother must either choose a dark path that can bring ruin upon herself and her child, or continue forward in the hope that their days ahead will be brighter.
In this short story from writer Vincent C. Martinez, the reader is taken through Pennsylvania Coal Country, the Midwest, and the sun-blasted Southwest of electric cities and atomic testing as a mother and son attempt to find their place in a nation on the turbulent edge of change.
Now, fully revised, the hope and darkness of Gods of the Neon Age radiates brighter than a neon sign under a dark, starry sky.
Vincent C. Martinez
Influenced by writers like Ray Bradbury, Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, and Sherwood Anderson, Vincent C. Martinez composes stories about the sad, spooky, and supernatural. He is currently working on his next collection of stories as well as on a novel.
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Gods of the Neon Age - Vincent C. Martinez
GODS OF THE NEON AGE
by Vincent C. Martinez
Copyright ©2014 Vincent C. Martinez. All Rights Reserved.
This short story was corrected and revised July, 2015.
This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and settings are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual events, names, locales, or persons living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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CONTENTS
GODS OF THE NEON AGE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
GODS OF THE NEON AGE
At night, borders become a blur.
We'd been driving for three hours, maybe four. The road narrowed, widened, sometimes marked its intention with lines, sometimes marked its direction with signs. It's possible we were in