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Title: PseudoPod 820: Off the Road
Post by: Bdoomed on July 24, 2022, 06:35:53 AM
PseudoPod 820: Off the Road (https://pseudopod.org/2022/07/22/pseudopod-820-off-the-road/)

Author: Matt Ellis (https://pseudopod.org/people/matt-ellis/)
Narrator: Kara Grace (https://pseudopod.org/people/kara-grace/)
Host: Alasdair Stuart (https://pseudopod.org/people/alasdair-stuart/)
Audio Producer: Marty Perrett (https://pseudopod.org/people/marty-perrett/)

“Off the Road” was originally published in the Spring 2021 issue of Sein und Werden



Show Notes
This story is dedicated to my daughter Kaetlyn Nicole–one of the strongest women I know. Thank you for always listening when I read my stories out loud.



They’re gonna try to tell you that hitchhiking is dangerous. Mostly men. They’ll throw ‘girl’ in there, possibly lumped in with ‘pretty young thang’ and close out the topic with a crooked wink smile. I get this a lot. I guess the days of Kerouac inspired hippies with a heavy wanderlust and a light wallet willing to extend the thumb to see the open road was somehow overshadowed by the endless list of inevitable horrors lying behind the thin facade of strangerly kindness. 

I blame it on Hollywood—back-lot bungalows full of coked-up Weinsteins ruining the simple things in life by stoking paranoia and creating a fear of everything for a box office money grab. Who are those studio types to tell me what to fear while they’re unzipping for the next pre-production casting couch diddle? What happened to my Meemaw’s generation? The one that climbed trees or drank out of sun-hot garden hoses? I say fuck it. You only live once. And I know better than others that life can be mighty short. You’re lucky if you even see it coming. 




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