Slate Wheels, North Dakota. The edge of winter. A flat landscape dusted with snow. Bound with rough rope, Brett Wilcox struggles to get free. One little mistake put him here. Not even his fault. Not really. Cole Wright heads for Spokane. A simple trip. Back Roads. Quiet towns. But Slate Wheels is anything but quiet, and Wright finds himself unable to stand aside.

Sean Monaghan is the author of more than one hundred stories, in print, online, on broadcast radio and podcast. His stories include "Concentration" in Landfall, and "The Molenstraat Music Festival" in Asimovs. He was the Grand Prize winner in the 2014 Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest for his story "Low Arc"