Strange Highways

In the stunning title story 'Strange Highways' a failed author returns to his hometown after many years to attend his father's funeral only to find himself suddenly and inexplicably thrust back through time to relive a traumatic event from his past. One rain-swept Sunday night when he was twenty years old on his way back to college after a weekend with his family Joey Shannon took the wrong highway - and from that moment nothing ever went right for him again. Now exactly twenty years later on another rain-swept night Joey finds himself at the same crossroads looking down the road never taken. Which is odd. Because that road no longer exists. A superhighway replaced it nearly twenty years ago and the old state route - which had crossed a web of perpetually burning abandoned coal mines - was condemned as too dangerous and was torn up. But now the highway is exactly as it was on that long-ago night and when Joey turns on to it he begins an eerie terrifying journey toward a truth so dark and stunning that it will change everything he believes about himself his past and the nature of life.