Hitchhikers: Southwest Surreal Shorts

By Ed Teja

Life gets crowded on the open road

Jason loves the open spaces of the western US. There is contemplative quiet that comes with crossing the endless miles. And that's his job, traveling, doing mobile repair and maintenance work for an office equipment company.

When they send him into New Mexico. an overnight stay at a motel that is haunted changes his life. Who knew spirits could be so tenacious or complicate your life so much?

A short, fantastic adventure in surreal New Mexico.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Float Street Press
• Release date: Jan 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201052799

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HITCHHIKERS

A Southwest Surreal Short

Ed Teja

Copyright © 2021 by Ed Teja

All rights reserved.

The cover art is an original pastel of New Mexico by Dagny

copyright © 2021 by Dagny Sellorin

Sellorin@ gmail.com

Used by permission

This is a book of fiction. The characters are not real. Some places' names are real and are in his beloved New Mexico, but the story misrepresents the places horridly for vague fictional purposes. Character names, the characters themselves, and such, are all products of the author’s fevered imagination.

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He couldn’t see anyone, of course, but he could feel their presence and it annoyed him. A motel room, a single room in a small town shouldn’t be crowded and this one was.

Although he would be well within his rights to demand another room, one without freeloaders, he wasn’t up to dealing with the surly bitch that checked him in. The idea of telling her he had no intention of paying good money for a room that was crowded made him edgy. A woman like that, someone who thought taking his money was doing him a favor, hell, she’d probably throw a fit and call the cops, tell them to take him to the looney bin for thinking his room was haunted.

Of course, he didn’t think that at all. Haunting was different and these weren’t sinister spirits at all. No, they were just there, and he wanted some privacy.

Besides, there was no certainty that the other