Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Going Nowhere
    Going Nowhere
    Going Nowhere
    Ebook29 pages28 minutes

    Going Nowhere

    By Kevin Wetmore

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Eddie’s life is going nowhere: dead-end job, bad reputation, and nothing to look forward to but more of the same. He’d give anything he’s got to get out of his backwater little town, and when the chance to make some easy cash comes his way, Eddie jumps at it. All he has to do is make his way to the house in the woods, where generations of teens have partied. There’s some kind bud stashed out there with his name on, and it might just be his ticket to freedom... or Eddie might end up finding something waiting for him in the dark.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFrith Books
    Release dateNov 17, 2016
    Going Nowhere
    Author

    Kevin Wetmore

    Kevin Wetmore is an award-winning writer whose short fiction has appeared in such anthologies as Midian Unmade, Whispers from the Abyss 2, Urban Temples of Cthulhu, Winter Horror Days, and Enter at Your Own Risk: The End is the Beginning, as well as such magazines as Mothership Zeta, Weirdbook and Devolution Z. He is also the author of such books as Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema and Back from the Dead: Reading Remakes of Romero’s Zombie Films as Markers of their Times. Check out his work at www.SomethingWetmoreThisWayComes.com and follow him on Twitter @HauntedKevin.

    Related to Going Nowhere

    Related ebooks

    Fantasy For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Survival Kit

      Mar 10, 2021

      I married Andy Morrison four months after we met. It was a mistake, the marriage, but I didn’t realize it until after the wedding weekend and by then it was done. Andy had gone along with the marriage plan gamely, though I guessed that was because I

      19 min read

    • Article

      Part 5 The Paint Shop

      Feb 7, 2022

      Part 5 The Paint Shop
      6 min read

    • Article

      Dirtnap

      Dec 15, 2019

      I was staying at Jean’s apartment in LA for two months to escape an especially dire Oregon winter and to test how much weight our relationship could bear. We had been conducting a long-distance romance for nearly a year then, back-and-forth visits an

      24 min read

    • Article

      Stump Of The World

      Dec 5, 2023

      At the stop sign before the library, Emma saw Gallo painting his yellow line as he had painted it for thirty years. The line highlighted a ten-foot-long crack in the road, a rogue speed bump that, unpainted, might do some damage to your car or your n

      18 min read

    • Article

      Birthday Surprise

      Sep 17, 2021

      Birthday Surprise
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Paint-shop

      Sep 24, 2021

      Here’s my tip of the month: If you drive into a shop to get some work done on your car, and you don’t know anything about the owner and staff there, ask to speak to the owner first. If he comes out and looks to be about 19 or 20 years old, then just

      5 min read

    • Article

      The July War

      Sep 8, 2020

      In summer, our neighborhood quiets in phases. The quieting begins in May. Schools give their older kids, the seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds, a month off to prepare for the baccalaureate exams. Following a ritual as old as our parents, the students

      21 min read

    • Article

      This Lousy Heart

      Jul 18, 2019

      This Lousy Heart
      14 min read

    • Article

      Jon Richardson

      Apr 17, 2023

      Jon Richardson
      6 min read

    • Article

      Too BAD

      Aug 30, 2022

      Too BAD
      6 min read

    • Article

      Taking CONTROL

      Mar 9, 2022

      Taking CONTROL
      6 min read

    • Article

      Getting To Know Eddie

      Mar 4, 2022

      Getting To Know Eddie
      5 min read

    • Article

      Proverbs Of A Faceless Time

      Dec 1, 2023

      Proverbs Of A Faceless Time
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Man Who Killed The Dog

      May 10, 2022

      Trigger Warning: This story contains violence against a dog. In short, it’s a tough read. When I was a child, I often worried over my busy thoughts, and how those thoughts could never seem to keep up with the complicated world around me. “Oh, that’s

      21 min read

    • Article

      Second CHANCES

      Aug 24, 2022

      Second CHANCES
      6 min read

    • Article

      Lockdown

      Aug 31, 2020

      You keep a secret safe, wrapped up in the back of a drawer in your mind, all tied up in metaphorical ribbon and string, for 14 years. And in the space of three days, it unravels. How did that happen? I’ll tell you how. I was up a ladder, that’s how.

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Bluesman

      May 24, 2022

      The Bluesman
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Bluesman

      May 24, 2022

      The Bluesman
      5 min read

    • Article

      Reflections On Mr. Twain

      Sep 10, 2022

      “Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” —Mark Twain The work on my car had taken longer than expected, and Sandy had been giving me a ride to the office for the last couple of days. I had always considered Sandy a dece

      18 min read

    • Article

      The Leather Coat

      Apr 4, 2024

      The Leather Coat
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Gas Station

      Mar 15, 2019

      Mary believed there were two kinds of people in the world. There were those who were seen and those who were not. Mary considered herself the latter. She hadn’t lived in the town for long, only a few months. It was known for its beaches. It swelled w

      10 min read

    • Article

      Mitch Morrison

      Jul 4, 2018

      Mitch Morrison
      13 min read

    • Article

      Journey INTO SPACE

      Jan 17, 2024

      "When I got back home from walking the dog, Mr Dear was washing the windows and singing a merry window cleaner’s song: ‘The blushing bride she looks divine, the bridegroom he is doing fine I’d rather have his job than mine, when I’m cleaning windows.

      3 min read

    • Article

      We Take Plastic

      Dec 1, 2022

      We Take Plastic
      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Going Nowhere

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Going Nowhere - Kevin Wetmore

      Going Nowhere by Kevin Wetmore

      Published by Frith Books © 2016 Kevin Wetmore. All rights reserved.

      www.somethingwetmorethiswaycomes.com

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events is purely coincidental.

      Cover design by Anna Reith for Frith Books © 2016

      Original art © sliper84/ www.123rf.com

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 First Edition

      www.frithbooks.com

      Going Nowhere

      Kevin Wetmore

      Eddie sat in his car, put the alligator clip to his lips, and drew deeply. He held the smoke for as long as he could, and finally exhaled out of the window, ending with a practiced cough. Then, he licked his fingers and pinched the end of the roach, figuring he’d save the rest until after work. He put it in a baggie under the seat.

      Eddie’s car stood at the far end of the parking lot, three spots over from a wrecked black Honda. Seven months ago that car had been in a head-on collision in front of Matty’s Drive-In and the cops had it pushed up here so it was off the road. The front of the car was all smashed in, the engine burrowing up through the hood and the windshield cracked. The cops had said they would tow it away, but it was still here, going nowhere. Eddie knew how it felt.

      He turned his key in the ignition and waited until the dashboard lights cycled through and the clock came on. Four twenty-six. He had four more minutes before he had to punch in. If he was late, he knew Mazetti would give him a ton of shit, but Eddie didn’t care. He stared out of the windshield toward the woods behind the fast food joint. The sun hung low in

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1