Roadside Pickup
1974 | Short Story

Reviewed Jan 21, 2023
Early morning darkness. Colleen sits stranded in her car. Three hours have produced three cars. None have stopped. But the fourth does. A young man with fashionable clothes and booze on his breath. Won’t she let him give her a ride?
Laymon’s second published story proffers a predictable twist, but at under two thousand words, it doesn’t drag.
Reading History
- 2023Jan21SatKindle (Crossroad Press, 2019)