Michael Hultquist’s novel Off Track is available at Lilley Press.
Excerpt from book:
“What kind of cowboy do you want to be?
Gary thrust Butchy into his back pocket. He couldn’t see through the puffed bruise of his right eye, but he felt it all the same. He carried the dead weight of the gun with him and inched down the stairs, step by step, following his mother’s terrified screams. Her strained voice echoed off the walls and bled through the pores of the house. For years those screams defined the house. They oozed at every moment, even through the silence. It seeped into Gary’s ears.
His thoughts, in those moments, weren’t his own. The world wasn’t real to him anymore. The air felt strange, as if swirling around him like a giant whirlpool, floating him toward some inevitable force intending to smash him to bits. Then it rushed him head on.
At the bottom of the stairs, he stumbled to the entrance of the kitchen and poked his head around. His mother leaned on her knees before his father, her hands clamped onto his pants leg for support. She pleaded with him, crying like Gary had never seen her before, molten tears pouring through her eyes and streaming down her raw face. His father struck her hard across the cheek and the slap echoed against the walls like a hand on wet concrete.
Gary fingered the gun and lifted it slowly.”
About Michael Hultquist:
Michael Hultquist a screenwriter and author of mostly dark fiction, horror, and thrillers, though he does throw in the occasional comedy to throw everyone off the trail.
His script, VICTIM, has been produced by Pierce Williams Entertainment, and is making the festival route in search of a distributor. He’s also completed several other scripts for them, all of which are in various stages of limbo. Two more have been opted for in the last few months.
Michael has a thing for cornfields and trains, having something to do with how and where he grew up. You’ll notice the imagery in his fiction. In his most recent novels, the main character in HUFFER likes to hang out in the cornfield huffing paint, and OFF TRACK actively incorporates a train and train tracks as a metaphor.
In addition to his scripts, Michael also has another novel, RISEN, available through The Fiction Works, and HUFFER, which is waiting on a release date from Graveside Tales. Michael also have several story and poetry publication credits.
He is an active member of the Horror Writers Association.
Order OFF TRACK from Lilley Press here.
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