Synopsis "Highway Men (in English)"
HIGHWAY MEN, a compilation of short stories by Gary Robbins will stir your senses and confound your reality. Join the journey to other worlds, perceptions and dimensions. Experience the horror and terror presented to the characters as they attempt to overcome evil and embrace good. Witness the startling, mind numbing thrill ride to an alternate reality. Discover a twisted and revenge filled death angel and her haunting of County Road 49 in the story HIGHWAY MEN. Ride with Billy as he tries to save the soul of his friend, Candy, before she loses her life on the highway to hell. Journey with Ayla in the story, AYLA'S BLACK BOX and her companion vintage camera that possesses an ability to travel back in time. The adventure finds Ayla in confrontation with an evil and manipulative ghost in Boldt Castle on the St. Lawrence River in Northern New York. Ayla discovers to her horror, an inherent darkness within the castle walls that threatens to take her life. A traveler decides to satisfy his curiosity and visit a creepy looking bait and tackle store. The sign out front for live bait did not prepare him for the terror he finds inside. The story, LIVE BAIT, might be a cure for anyone thinking of venturing into the shadows of the alternate zone. THE ATTIC is a story of a young girl helping her ailing grandfather operate an old Paris hotel. Her grandfather had always been quiet about a locked door to an attic room on the 9th floor. Josee often asked about the room, but her Grandpapa would only offer, "when the time comes." Josee must provide assistance to her grandfather to find his spiritual path and overcome a greedy uncle's desire to also discover the secrets held in the attic. What lies there? In the story, THE CISCO KID, Warren P. Laughlin, referred to as the Cisco Kid due to his fondness of the Old West and his gambling prowess, decides to take a much needed vacation from his high stress job as a Wall Street trader. He travels to Deadwood City, a gambling town in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where he meets the mysterious Pam. Unable to say no to the pretty lady, she engages Warren in an insane plan to alter history at the No. Six Saloon, site of the murder of the legendary lawman, Wild Bill Hickok, in the year 1876. Smitten by Pam, Warren decides to venture forward with the improbable and finds himself in a threatening alternate existence. The final story, HOUSE OF MINDS, presents a reality check ten years in the future for Jim and Selma Haggerty. They find themselves in a memory palace run by the enlightened ones, the Indigo Children and their highly evolved off- spring. Jim, trapped within the House, loses his ability to distinguish between reality and manipulation. His worst nightmare comes back to haunt him.Get on the paranormal merry-go-around and immerse yourself in the surreal twilight of an alternate reality.
