/authors/averagejoe/ Recent content in Averagejoe on Utopia Stories Library Hugo en-us /stories/63900/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /stories/63900/ <p><em><strong>Author's Note:</strong> Been reading stories on this site for years and thought I would try to write my own. I&rsquo;ve never been much of a writer, but what the hell, right? It&rsquo;s all in good fun.</em></p> <p><strong>Chapter 1</strong></p> <p>&ldquo;This place looks as good as any,&rdquo; Caleb thought to himself as he pulled into the truck stop around 2 a.m. He had been on the road now for nearly three days, having been assigned to take the goods he was hauling from San Diego, California all the way to Boston, Massachusetts. Caleb had dropped out of college six years ago after failing most of his classes sophomore year, and had taken on the truck driving career, thinking it would be a good way to see the country.</p>