Do-Overs And Detours

<p>Detours are amazing creatures.<br><br>A detour can shortcut your existence or it can lead you down a forever long road that will linger far into the distant reaches of eternity. It is these unexpected tangents that people stumble across nearly every day that will haunt you in a frighteningly familiar fashion.<br><br>Wander into a laundromat and find a kind of a time machine. Indulge yourself in a particularly nasty game of baseball. Hitch a ride on a freight train with the piggyback man or entomb yourself in a trailer walled with books or take a ride on a bus that is going nowhere fast or just lean over an empty ocean and wait for the very first mermaid you see.<br><br>Detour around an overturned trailer of chickens and find a chance to do it all over again. Take a taxi ride with a very hungry passenger or just walk in the park and watch a juggler balancing severed heads. <br><br>Reality will take you only so far and after that there is nothing to rely on but faith and fear.<br><br>I offer you eighteen eerie tales of fantasy horror science fiction and all around strangeness that will take you to the edge of the map and then nudge you just a little bit further.<br><br>"If Harlan Ellison Richard Matheson and Robert Bloch had a three-way sex romp in a hot tub and then a team of scientists came in and filtered out the water and mixed the leftover DNA into a test tube the resulting genetic experiment would most likely grow up into Steve Vernon." – Bookgasm</p>