The Wrong Exit
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Road trip stories
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: Detour of Shadow, Raven Draft and Opal Prose. Readers usually start with “Bow Saw Matinee” and “Mud Run Muddle”. Ranked by how many readers finish them. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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21 22 Salt and Ash
The conference in Boise had run long, and by the time I packed the truck on Friday afternoon I was past tired and into that hollow kind of…
23 Drive Slow
My life runs on a schedule.
24 The Gratitude Game
Okay, so, I'm twenty-eight years old and I like to think of myself as a rational person.
25 The Anniversary Dive
The dive boat was supposed to be my treat to myself.
26 Gas Station Morning
The first thing I knew was the smell of gasoline and Callie's hair, all mixed up together, which is not a smell they bottle anywhere but…
27 Potato Scene
Marian was twenty-eight and Ren thirty-five, and both of them were old enough to know their own minds, which mattered later, but not yet.
28 The Key Wall
I never planned on staying in Skrindavik.
29 Open Road Lessons
The rain was coming down hard when Lizzie pulled up outside Kate's apartment building in Lincoln.
30 Rest Stop Rivalry
Phoebe Martins was forty-two years old and she had never once regretted the way she'd built her life.
31 Three Days to Maybe
Hilary pulled into Shelly's driveway at a quarter to six in the morning, and her stomach was already a knot.
32 Diesel & Desire
The bus depot in Mio is nothing like the pictures online.
33 Wrong Loaf
Kathleen almost drove past the records office.
34 Exit 47
Desiree was twenty-eight years old and she had spent six months of those years talking to a man she had never once seen in person, which…
35 pumping nostalgia
I had been on the road for four hours when I finally accepted that the best part of the trip was the part where nobody knew where I was.
36 Rest Stop Rules
*This one's about what happens when two people who know every inch of each other decide to act like strangers.
37 The Sump Pump Warning Light
Laney Hobbs was thirty-three years old and she had been delivering mail in Silves for four years, and in all that time she had never once…
38 Bill's Detour
My name is Muriel Strand, I'm twenty-nine years old, and I have never once said no to Bill Voss.
39 Swim Through the Night
I'm Margot.
40 The Last Diner
October 14, 8:47 p.m.
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Road trip stories, from quick reads to long series.
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Most road trip stories take 12 to 23 minutes, and the average is 17. Sort by shortest to start small, or follow a series to get each part as it lands.