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• Behind the Scenes with Frightliner
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Hey, all! I'm in Houston, TX, visiting my sister and helping her MIL move. Not a lot to report on my life, so let's talk about something more interesting--Space Traipse!

Space Traipse: Hold My Beer, Season 7

When Jay Carlson has a run-in with a strange, dark truck on a lonely road, his life goes south. He sees things that others don't see. He learns things he wishes he could forget, and he is drawn into an ancient battle he wouldn't have believed in even a day in the past. This time, even country music and the open road can't save him. Join authors Colleen Drippé and Karina Fabian as they take you to the darkest places on the road.

Also includes four extra stories:

• The Lobby: An innocent trip to the movies leads to a tempting choice. But is eternal “happiness” worth the price?

•  Accidental Undeath: An unfortunate accident leaves a truck-driving vampire with an impossible decision to make.

•   The Women of Rattlesnake Hill: When a vampire attacks, the women of Rattlesnake Hill do what the women there have always done to protect their own.

•  My Big Fat, Zombie Wedding: A zombie romcom ends the book on a lighter note.

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Behind the Scenes with Frightliner

One of my best friends is Colleen Drippe. She writes wonderful books about missionaries in space--The Star Brothers--but she's wonderfully talented in children's books and horror. We bonded by writing "Frightliner" together. I most remember how this story pushed me out of my usual writing style into something more descriptive and deeper than my usual fun-and-games.

Remember how earlier this year I said I identified with Ray Bradbury's style of writing? Colleen also embraces it, far more than I. She, however, has a more cerebral, almost literary approach than I do. I think working with her made me a better writer.

We never did manage another collaboration, but we're still good friends, and I always come away from our conversations with something to think about. She's a great thinker and a learned woman--so much more than I.

Scene from Space Traipse 7 "They Grow So Fast"

Reba froze, clutching the handle, balancing there with the driver's seat in front of her. She tried to speak, to call, but nothing would come out. She hung there, thinking of death, while the night passed and the stars moved and the moon looked in over her shoulder. Finally, she climbed into the truck.

"Daniel," she whimpered. She was ready to forgive the new pickup, but it was too late. Something moved in the back and she turned in the driver's seat and saw a pale face, caught in the moonlight, eyes gleaming. She had an impression of lank hair, and a grizzled beard. Then two hands reached up to take her shoulders and she saw the mouth open.

She screamed at last, drowning the noise of the crickets, drowning the beating of her heart, the wrenching sounds of her dislocating joints as something drank its fill, savaging its prey, ripping…

When she knew she was dying, she ceased to scream. For one awful moment, she looked into eternity and then, remembering some scraps of childhood religion, she tried to pray. With a final snarling rip, the thing tore out her throat and cast her body out onto the road.

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