Will has just returned home from sea to find his wife lying dead on the kitchen floor. Four states away, Phil has been waiting for his son to return home, only to discover his body decomposing at the bottom of a nearby swamp. Will's wife always wanted a highway-bound honeymoon. Phil's son always wanted to see the country. In an attempt to pick up the pieces of their lives, both Will and Phil load up their cars and hit the road--unknowingly traveling toward a collision--their destinies literally crashing together on I-95. From the moment their keys slip into the ignition, to the second their...

This edgy, darkly humorous short story collection will take hold of your imagination and won't let go.

Sharply tuned, haunting, and darkly humorous, these stories take readers from the country fair to the suburban home to the boy scout camping trip, flipping each stopping point on its head. Every story begins and ends with one voice, and each contains a mystery or turn of events that shocks, entertains, and frightens--and often all three.

In the title story, rest area, a father chats with other drivers while he waits for his daughter at a rest stop. She went to...