The Dark Road

By Karen Stollznow

Michael can’t believe his luck when he picks up an attractive hitchhiker late one night on Highway 365 in Arkansas.

He plans to take advantage of the young woman, but soon realizes that he may have driven right into the haunted highway’s urban legend.

What dark road will this strange girl take him down?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Karen Stollznow
• Release date: Oct 17, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463248607

Karen Stollznow

Bestselling author Karen Stollznow's non-fiction works include Missed Conceptions: How We Make Sense of Infertility; On the Offensive: Prejudice in Language Past and Present; Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic; God Bless America; Haunting America, and Would You Believe It? Her fiction includes the anthology Fisher's Ghost and Other Stories; the novel Hits & Mrs.; and the short stories Unforeseen Circumstances; Don't Leave Me; Welcome Home; The Dark Road; I Am Me; Room for One More: Lord Dufferin's Tale; The Screaming Skull; The Way We Weren't; Leap of Faith (The Guardian Angel); and Oliver & Olivia.A host of the popular science podcast Monster Talk, she has spent many years investigating urban legends and folklore. A Doctor of Linguistics, she has taught at several universities in the United States and Australia. She was formerly a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently a researcher at Griffith University. Karen was born in Sydney, Australia, and she currently lives in Denver, Colorado.

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The Dark Road

(A Short Story)

By Karen Stollznow

Copyright © Karen Stollznow 2019

All Rights Reserved

www.karenstollznow.com

Front cover design: Matthew Baxter

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

Also by Karen Stollznow

Short Stories:

Welcome Home

I Am Me

Don’t Leave Me

Unforeseen Circumstances

Other Titles:

Why Is That Offensive?

Would You Believe It?

Hits & Mrs.

God Bless America

Haunting America

Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic

Michael was headed homewards following a business trip to Jackson, Mississippi. This was the last stretch