Middle of Nowhere – A Psychological Mystery Short Story

“The two-lane highway stretched to the horizon like a gray ribbon slicing through the rocky landscape colored in a warm, glowing spectrum of desert hues. The vintage, sky-blue Ford Gran Torino station wagon cruised along, gliding over humps in the road that lifted his stomach like riding a roller coaster.”

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Twilight Zone and Black Mirror fans will get lost in this Hitchcockian flash science fiction tale of an unlucky young man’s twisted odyssey to oblivion.

Awakening behind the wheel of an enigmatic blue station wagon, he motors along a desert highway, searching in vain for another human, a signpost, anything, kicking up dust and gravel through the middle of nowhere toward the unending horizon stretching across otherworldly hinterlands.

There are no off-ramps from the middle of nowhere.

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About the Lost Cactus Archives short story collection

Mythical and legendary short stories culled from top-secret files liberated from rusted cabinets and rotted file boxes at a long-defunct clandestine desert laboratory and research base known as Lost Cactus.

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