Roadtrip

by Mark Finn

The mysterious stranger on the side of the road doesn't know much, but he's pretty sure he's not Elvis. The baby with wings driving the car has his own set of problems, but that won't keep him from helping a fellow traveler out. Now they are on a journey of discovery in the only thing that makes sense to either of them: a 1963 Pink Cadillac... One of the cornerstones of the San Cibola shared universe is finally available again! Originally printed in "Gods New and Used," this is the updated and revised story of Aaron King and what happens when he accepts a ride with the God of Love.

104 pages, Paperback

First published April 25, 2014

About the author

Mark Finn is an author, an editor, and a pop culture critic. He is a nationally-recognized authority on Robert E. Howard and has written extensively about the Texas author. His work has appeared in publications for the Robert E. Howard Foundation Press, Dark Horse Comics, Boom! Comics, The Cimmerian, REH: Two-Gun Raconteur, The Howard Review, Wildside Press, Centipede Press, The University of Texas press, Greenwood Press, Scarecrow Press, The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies and elsewhere. Finn has presented several papers about Howard to the PCA/ACA National conference, the AWC, and he continues to lecture and perform readings regularly.

Finn also writes comics and novels, as well as articles, essays, reviews, short stories and role playing games for Playboy.com, RevolutionSF.com, Dark Horse Comics, DC/Vertigo Comics, Monkeybrain Books, Sky Warrior Books, F.A.C.T. Publications, Tachyon Press, Modiphius Press, and others. Finn’s fiction can be found in Ray Guns Over Texas, Road Trip, Tails From the Pack, Empty Hearts, Heroika: Dragon Eaters, Barbarian Crowns, Asian Pulp, and Fight Card: The Adventures of Sailor Tom Sharkey, and elsewhere.

He is a managing editor for Skelos Press, and he podcasts for The Gentlemen Nerds. When he is not waxing eloquent about popular culture, he writes comics and fiction, dabbles in magic, and produces and performs community theater. He lives in North Texas atop an old movie theater with far too many books and an affable pit bull named Sonya.

Reviews

[Janice Schange · Rating 5 out of 5]

A twisted fantasy that makes you read it twice.

[Java Davis · Rating 4 out of 5]

What happens when a mythological god and a hitchhiker take to the road in a pink Cadillac? This story is what happens!

Cupid and Aaron, an Elvis look-alike, meet up and head to an obscure town to visit Cupid's mother, Venus. Along the way, they stop to visit an Egyptian god, visit "the Thing," and drink lots of beer.

If you are sensitive to foul language, move on, because there is loads of it. I found it in keeping with these two personalities.

--Java Davis, www.roadtripwriters.com

[R. Sue Oleson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Could not put this one down, and then went back & read it again!