The deserted highway cut through the sagebrush past the only gas station in a hundred miles.

Wayward passersby with car trouble who stopped for fuel, a jump-start, or a tow. Unlucky souls with dead vehicles and no cell phone reception who thought they could shave extra time off their trips by taking this shortcut.

A place of missing persons who vanished without a trace.

Until the day it came for them.

“Evil | Live” is one of 15 stories in Real Dreams, a collection of short stories written over three decades with themes ranging from adventure, fantasy, mystery, spirituality, mythology, to love and war.

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