Out There: A Short Story about Teenagers, a Road Trip, and the Jersey Devil

“I’d been kidnapped.” So begins this story about a teenager’s impromptu road trip along dirt roads, beyond the malls and the parking lots of New Jersey, and into a remote area known as the Pine Barrens. What starts as an unplanned adventure turns into a night of unexpected—and terrifying—encounters as the teenagers find themselves along a river and near an abandoned house with a mystery behind it.