"Pink Bells, Tattered Skies" A Short Story adapted from HUNTERS AT THE EDGE OF NIGHT

This short story was published in FORBIDDEN LINES #10 (May/June 1992). It was adapted from a chapter in my unpublished novel, HUNTERS AT THE EDGE OF NIGHT. Sort of NSFW due to language.

Illustrated by Gene Gryniewicz. Though he didn't specify, I always thought the woman on p. 47 & 49 is Sandra, p. 48 & 50 is Monica, and the guy on p. 51 is Ed. Keith, the narrator, is not pictured.

This is just an interlude in the novel, which is why I could adapt it fairly easily to a stand-alone story. Ghosts and phantom hitchhikers have nothing else to do with the novel. 

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