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Literature is a relative term.

Roadside Pickup

C-: 2.5 stars (out of 5)
1974 | Short Story

Early morning darkness. Colleen sits stranded in her car. Three hours have produced three cars. None have stopped. But the fourth does. A young man with fashionable clothes and booze on his breath. Won’t she let him give her a ride?

Laymon’s second published story proffers a predictable twist, but at under two thousand words, it doesn’t drag.

Reading History

  • Watched on
    Sat, Jan 21, 2023 via Kindle (Short Stories: Volume One: The Mystery and Men’s Magazines, Laymusings, 2014)