Destinations Unknown
by Gary Braunbeck

Description:
A three-novella collection of original dark fiction concerning itself with people, cars, and the open road. In "Congestion", a man who has hated cars all his life finds himself stuck in a traffic jam on a sweltering hot day…a very different type of traffic jam. In "Prodigal Blues", a group of people are driving in a van toward destinations unknown…as the story unfolds, we discover that all of them have been kidnapped by a serial murderer known as Grendel and he has very special plans for them. In "Merge Right", a businessman on a long road trip comes to a long and lonely stretch of highway where every sign he passes orders him to MERGE RIGHT. There are no exits in sight, no other cars, no sign of civilization…and there is something very strange about the scenes appearing in his rearview mirror.