*Originally published in the Springsteen anthology "Shut Down Strangers and Hot Rod Angels" by Bone & Ink Press in 2019. inspired by the song "Thunder Road"  

Amanda Crum is a writer whose work has appeared in publications such as Eastern Iowa Review, Blue Moon Art and Literary Review, and Barren Magazine. Her first novel, The Fireman’s Daughter, won third place in the WritingRoom novel contest in 2008; her first book of horror-inspired poetry, The Madness In Our Marrow, earned a spot on the shortlist for a Bram Stoker Award nomination in 2015. She is a finalist for the 2019 J.F. Powers Prize in Short Fiction for her story “A Shimmer In The Parlor”. Her latest work, Dreaming Of Snow, is a collection of poetry based on the show “Breaking Bad”. She currently lives in Kentucky with her husband and two children.*

Roads

There's a place in the dark where weeds…