"A Dark Desert Highway" (Patreon)

Bram Heathcliff recalls his first ghost-hunting trip ten years prior. It was the summer before his first college semester and wanting to search for an elusive hitchhiking phantom along Route 66, Bram instead befriends another strange hitchhiker, a mysterious Jack Russell terrier who has a fondness for smoking...and more.

Songs I listened to while writing this: "Hotel California" (obviously), "Life is a Highway", "Holiday" and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", and "What You Own" from the Rent musical.

Another major inspiration for writing this was “American Dreaming” by artdecade, the first episode of which can be found here.