Short Works:"Rest Stop"


"Rest Stop"
Fiction




Author John Dykstra, who writes under the pen name of Rick Hardin, has had too much beer to drink at his mystery writer's group meeting and desperately needs to find a rest stop on his return from Jacksonville to Sarasota. There is only one other car at the rest stop and he hears its occupants in the ladies' room. It is a woman's and a man's voice he hears coming from the bathroom and clearly the sounds of domestic abuse. John Dykstra has to decide how, or even if, he will act to stop it.



First Appearance:

Esquire
December 2003
Magazine



Subsequent Appearances:


The Sunday Times Magazine
As "Rest Stop, Part 1"
February 16, 2004
Newspaper






The Sunday Times Magazine
As "Rest Stop, Part 2"
February 17, 2004
Newspaper






Just After Sunset
US First Edition
November 11, 2008
Scribner
Hardcover





Just After Sunset
US Collector's Edition
November 11, 2008
Scribner
Hardcover





Just After Sunset
UK First Edition
November 2008
Hodder & Stoughton
Hardcover





Just After Sunset
UK Collector's Edition
2008
Hodder & Stoughton
Hardcover




Not listed: Lesser Just After Sunset editions.

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