Choose Your Own Descent
They call Highway Fifty the Bermuda Triangle of the West.
After the death of his father, Josh sets out across the American West with his best friends, Tim, Theo, and Patrick. What begins as an attempt to escape their grief slowly turns into something stranger along Nevada’s Highway 50, the Loneliest Road in America.
Shortly after losing sight of civilization, the road stops behaving normally.
Night never fully arrives. Distances begin to change. Hours vanish without explanation. And when one of Josh’s party disappears into the endless twilight surrounding their campsite, the group is forced deeper into the desert searching for both their friend and a way forward.
The farther Highway 50 is traveled, by both the group and the reader, the more the desert seems to reshape itself. Roads loop. Landmarks return. Choices carry consequences that refuse to stay buried.
Each path forward forces the group to confront the question they came west trying to outrun:
What if escape was never possible to begin with?
Highway Fifty is a surreal literary horror novel about grief, codependence, and the terrifying comfort of refusing to move on.
