About the Anthology
Now available from Amazon, Bookshop.org, and Barnes and Noble! Also available in the UK through Amazon!
This anthology of weird, surreal, and bizarro tales of travel shines a spotlight on pit stops and side trips. Buckle up for some of the strangest diners you’ve ever encountered, a series of roadside attractions, and two hauntings these authors wrote so you wouldn’t visit. Attend the introductory course on the dangers of teleportation and make sure your spaceship is fueled up. The regular gas station may or may not have banana candies. Take a break at the museum and explore some powerful art history or take a break between thoughts. Don’t forgot to stop by the amusement park for some self-love. Warning: Tourist traps may be dangerous.
If you’re feeling extra generous, postcards are available for purchase to help cover production costs. (I’ve funded this project entirely out of pocket.)
Meet the authors!
M. Lopes da Silva (he/they/she) is a white Latinx and non-binary trans masc author, artist, and critic from Los Angeles. He writes pulp and poetry. Dread Stone Press recently published his first novelette What Ate the Angels – a queer vore sludgefest that travels beneath the streets of Los Angeles starring a non-binary ASMR artist and their vore-loving girlfriend – in Volume Two of the Split Scream series.
— How to Map the Amusement Park You Keep Driving by in the Highways of Your Dreams
Bitter Karella is the writer and horror aficionado behind the microfiction comedy account @Midnight_pals, which asks what if all your favorite horror writers gathered around the campfire to tell scary stories. When not writing twitter jokes, he also dabbles in cartooning and text game design.
— Big Flo’s All-American Roadkill Diner & Last Chance Bar and Grill Truck Stop for Normal Human Motorists
Corey Farrenkopf lives on Cape Cod with his wife, Gabrielle, and works as a librarian. His short stories have been published in Three-Lobed Burning Eye, SmokeLong Quarterly, Uncharted, Catapult, The Southwest Review, Reckoning, Flash Fiction Online, Bourbon Penn, and elsewhere. To learn more, follow him on twitter @CoreyFarrenkopf or on the web at CoreyFarrenkopf.com.
— Some Trips Are Not Worth Remembering
Nicole M. Wolverton is a Pushcart-nominated writer living in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. Her debut YA horror novel A Misfortune of Lake Monsters is forthcoming in 2024 (CamCat Books); she is also the author of the adult thriller The Trajectory of Dreams (Bitingduck Press, 2013) and editor of Bodies Full of Burning, an anthology of short horror fiction (Sliced Up Press, 2021). Her short stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in dozens of publications.
— Footnotes to the Travel Guide
DeBussy O’Slamahain is a transgender man (he/him) with a Creative Writing degree from Bloomsburg University, a loving fiancé, many furry and scaly children, and a heart full of dread and wonder. Hydrate yourself dear reader and have mercy on yourself.
— St. Cecilia’s Catacomb Is or Isn’t Real, but Hear Me Out!
Dewi Hargreaves is a writer and illustrator from the cold, soggy middle of the UK. His short fiction has appeared in publications by Etherea Magazine, Magic and Moons Press and Noctivagant Press, amongst others. His flash fiction story ‘Maccabeus’ came 2nd in Grindstone Literary’s Open Prose Competition 2017. He has self-published two books, The Shield Road and Eyes on the Blue Star.
— The Ghost of Yareuva IV
Harley Showers: Fiction writer in the genres of fantasy, horror, and humor. Indulges in far too much media as long as it isn’t social. Is an avid content creator on Twitch and WordPress and plays roleplaying games in his free time.
— Translocation 101
Steve Novak is an ordinary working man with a passion of story. His first writings were non-fiction, but he’s since seen the light. His first published fiction is the story You Give Me Fever in the anthology Island Fever. He’s currently querying his first novel.
— Waiting Room
Devaki Devay is an Indian writer of fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Their work can be found at Barren Magazine and Peatsmoke journal! Follow them @DevakiDevay on Twitter.
— stranger things have happened
Madeleine Swann‘s collection, The Sharp End of the Rainbow, was published by Heads Dance Press, and her novella, The Vine That Ate The Starlet, was released by Filthy Loot.
Her novella, Fortune Box (Eraserhead Press), was nominated for a Wonderland Award. Her short stories have appeared in various anthologies and podcasts, including Splatterpunk Award nominated The New Flesh: A David Cronenberg Tribute.
— The Service Station Between Thoughts
Brian Ferguson-Avery is a writer who loves any visitor center that isn’t closed. He buys cheap postcards from their gift shops and sends them to friends, and plans someday to wallpaper his room with the postcards that friends have sent him. His short-story collection, Rough Jointed Beasts, was recently published by Feral Indie Studio, and he has had stories, poems, and essays published in places such as JAMA, Crossings, Quarterly West, Rosebud, and Short Story.
— Ten Detours with You
Aliya Tene’ is a word-a-phile who started writing poems in elementary school and who, over the years, has followed the muse into writing everything from plays, to music, to screenplays, to short fantastic tales of unruly fae. Right now, she is grateful to be completing her first horror novel -or 2- as an MFA candidate at Rosemont College. Aliya is an Assistant Professor of English in Philadelphia. She is currently obsessed with the Arrowverse, is suspicious of people who choose mild taco sauce, and has a firm belief that most dogs are better people than actual people, except for those in her own beautiful loving family – of course.
— Move Up Day
Brittany Thomas is a queer writer who was born and raised in upstate New York and currently lives in London (and misses diners). Her writing appears in Bullshit Lit, Fifth Wheel Press’s Come Sail Away anthology, JAKE, Scrawl Place, and The Daily Drunk Magazine. You can find her on Twitter @britomatic.
— The Last Good Diner on the Road to the End of the World
Sarah Karasek 