Bow Saw Matinee
The rain had been coming down for two days straight and the gravel behind the bar had turned into this gray soup that pooled around the…
Best Road trip Stories of 2026
The most-read road trip stories right now, in a short top ten and then picks by how you want to read. Road trip stories, from quick reads to long series. Most road trip stories here sit in humor & satire and toys & masturbation. Reads run 12 to 23 minutes. Writers to know: Raven Draft, Detour of Shadow and Opal Prose. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The top road trip stories
01 02 Mud Run Muddle
I finished the night shoot at four in the morning and decided I had earned something stupid.
03 The Birdcage Dare
I drove out to Hendricks Field on a Tuesday in July, the kind of heat that made the dashboard vents feel useless.
04 Trucking with the Sky Thing
Thirty-one years I been driving freight.
05 CollarMe
My name is Clay Masterson, I'm twenty-eight, and three years ago I accidentally found out something about myself at a tipsy costume party.
06 The Oil Press Proposal
The absurd part wasn't that I was trapped overnight in a disused oil palm press at the edge of Kanas Lake.
07 Shucking and Riding
The dog rode in the back seat of Pat's aging station wagon like a man being taken somewhere he didn't want to go.
08 The Brass Telescope
The bridge had been a joke for years, and then it wasn't.
09 Carpool Confessions
Your approach no longer aligns with our values.
10 The Leather Harness
*This one just poured out of me after a long night drive through the high desert.
Longer road trip reads
Summer Heat and Steady Hands
The house lacked air conditioning, and the temperature made its feelings known.
Revenge Highway
I had the revenge all mapped out, which is a funny thing to say about a man driving a Lincoln through the Panhandle with his wife of…
Flying Kites at Dusk
I'd like to tell you I drove up to Gaborone that morning feeling calm and confident, but the truth is I'd been rehearsing what to say for…
Highway Dares
The sedan had been rolling west on US-54 for about four hours when I decided the heat had cooked something loose in my brain.
Last Exit Before
Don Carroll was fifty-four years old, and he had spent most of those years holding the needle instead of the rope.