Midnight Blues: Tulpa Chapbook Series

By Brian Knight

Jerry Conway is old, sick, heartbroken, and nearly used up when the old car comes back into his life, hungry for vengeance. With Jerry’s help, Midnight Blues tracks down the men responsible for the death of his wife. 
But what does Midnight Blues and his lost love’s angry spirit have in store for him, the man who failed to protect her?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tulpa Books
• Release date: Jul 12, 2018

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Midnight Blues

Tulpa Chapbook Series

Brian Knight

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Brian Knight’s Knightmares

Midnight Blues

About Brian Knight

This edition published by Tulpa Books. Copyright © 2018 by Brian Knight. Previously published in 2009 by Delirium Books, and 2011 by Darkside Digital. All rights reserved.

This story is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental. No part of this publication may be reprinted, reproduced, transmitted, distributed, or used commercially for any reason without the permission of the author.

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Midnight Blues

There was this little rest stop on Washington Highway 129 at the bottom of the Rattlesnake Grade, just before the Oregon border. I don’t remember the place’s name, but I do remember the glass front cooler beside the door in the dining area. Its shelves were stacked with Styrofoam cups, and there was a Live Wurms sign taped to the door. I had to re-read the sign to convince myself I’d read it right the first time.

Wurms, just like in some old sword and sorcery novel.

That was where I found the fat guy with the beard.

Jerry Conway sat at the booth nearest the Wurm cooler, alone, drinking a bottomless cup of coffee and taking minuscule bites of the greasiest hamburger he’d ever eaten. When Jeffrey Linkin pushed through the door Jerry looked up at him, marking the man quickly before returning to his meal.

Jerry hadn’t seen that man in over twenty years, but recognized him at once.

Jeffrey was fatter than he’d been back then, and the years had softened what was once a great, solid looking tree trunk of a body into swinging flaps and rolls of flab. His belly swung like a flesh pendulum beneath the hem of a stained and sweaty t-shirt. His beard, once dark brown and closely cropped, was now light