Stories tagged “King of the Road”

  • How to name a truck

    Matt’s truck was a mash-up, but it worked. It was a hydraulic/diesel hybrid. He took the hydraulics from a front end loader and found a diesel engine in a vintage Mercedes. Waste heat from the hydraulics warmed the glow plugs of the diesel, which...

  • The King, Death, and the Doctor arrive in Tucson

    Dreadnought rolled up to the flimsy guard station outside Tucson late in the evening. The stars in the sky were here and there blotted out by the greasy smoke of cow dung and animal fat fires. Wood is too valuable to burn in Tucson. Matt could probably...

  • The King, the Doctor, and Death Zone Visit the Last Tycoon

    Almost immediately, gunfire ricocheted off of Dreadnought’s tough exterior. A shirtless and heavily tattooed man dropped in a pool of blood outside a local vice den called El Fracaso Épica. Six men with green bandanas covering their mouths held ...

  • Tucson News

    Twitch, like Matt, probably Death Zone, and definitely the old Doc, had survived the End 33 or 34 years ago. With civilization fallen apart at the seams, nobody had managed to keep a good calendar at first, so now there was some disagreement as to when...

  • The King and Eye

    The guards grunted and allowed Matt through to Mayor Aii’s office. A tough old Japanese broad, she had been running Tucson for 12 years with a fair measure of success. Everybody called her ‘Eye’ because first, it was close enough to h...

  • An Eye for Eye

    The Mayor paused for a response from Matt but got none. “I consider you the second most important person in Tucson, Matt.” Number one was obvious. “I’m not a citizen of Tucson,” Matt spat out. “Hush now; I grant you ...

  • Bait and Switch

    “I can’t carry enough food and water for a trip like that!” objected Matt. “Especially for three people. You’re taking your Doctor and new merc friends with you. I need you to survive the trip.” Matt literally growle...

  • The King of the Road accepts his Quest

    Matt was momentarily stunned. The leathery old bat actually loved her city?!? Heh, tough love. And, he had never considered being a leader of men. He quickly realized that Eye was probably right. Two months, huh? he thought. Wonder if I can make it the...

  • Flattery Will Get You Everywhere

    Matt considered for a second. “I’ll let you know tomorrow morning. And now that I’ve accepted this responsibility, I’d like it if you answered a question for me: why do you consider me the second most important person in Tucson?...

  • The Big Easy, The Hard Way

    Matt knew this wasn’t going to be easy. Making your way into the middle of someone else’s war was a sure way to get killed, and based on last time he saw New Orleans, he knew it wasn’t something worth dying for. Luckily there was Deat...

    • Author: Ath
    • Posted over 2 years ago.

  • The King, the Doctor, and Death Zone Reach the Border

    After driving for several hours, Matt could see the Texas border. As its name suggested, West Texas was the most westerly of the five states that comprised Texas. Its capital was at Dallas, but El Paso, which was where the crew of the Dreadnought now f...