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Tag: fiction: Page 2
Life
The Passenger: Part 1
Wendy Parkerâs annual piece of Halloween fiction gets under way â what happens when a killer with his prey in his autoâs passenger seat wrecks into the back of a broken-down flatbed rig? âŚ
October 28, 2015
Parking
When real life and fiction meet
In which George and Wendy get a new hometown parking spot â maybe.
February 9, 2015
Life
The Barn: A Halloween tale
Perry and his Freightliner are long gone, but the barn on his widow Daraâs farm holds vestiges of him, and mysteries for her young daughter, whom Perry never met â or , as Dara finds out in this chilling story, did he?
October 31, 2014
Life
Be careful what you wish for: A Halloween tale
A new fictional tale for a spooky week by Overdriveâs Wendy Parker. Sure, Gary was a little overweight, but with the new weight mandates for drivers coming on, his resignation wasnât quite enough to forestall desperate measuresâŚ
October 29, 2014
Channel 19
Excerpting âRoll On,â a novel by Fred Afflerbach
The book is out, owner-operators. And what a book it is, telling the story, as Iâve written here, of owner-operator Ubi Sunt, an old-school âbedbuggerâ and child of the orphan trains facing down in the early 1980s an incoming rush of new faces, new ways of doing business, new pressure from his family to settle [âŚ]
April 17, 2012
Channel 19
Former operatorâs novel immortalizes trail-blazing independents
Fred Afflerbach didnât set out to launch a trucking career when he took a job working for a Bekins Van Lines-affiliated moving company in Austin, Texas, in high school in the 1970s. He caught the fever all the same. âThe owner-operators would come rolling in and the drivers are telling stories and your eyes are [âŚ]
March 13, 2012
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