Stories from the Asphalt

After his father skips out on his eighth birthday never to return, Johnny's mother shuts down emotionally and buries her boredom in a decade of alcohol and men. Two months shy of his eighteenth birthday, his high school girlfriend dies in a bad drag between a car and a train. Devastated, Johnny sets off on his Harley to search for the remnants of family on the road between destruction and enlightenment.

Through an interconnected collage of short stories, flash fiction, poetry and artwork, readers take a motorcycle road trip across the country and into the lives of saints, dealers, junkies and whores; abandoned and lost souls looking for something, anything to fill the void along the pursuit of happiness in the underbelly of the American Dream.