Welcome to Bloody Twine Presents #5! BT Presents #5 features Road-Sign Joe, a novelette published within Bloody Twine #6.
In this horrifying tale of plastic terror, a young man, Miguel, travels cross-country in order to get to his sister’s wedding. Looking for a shortcut, he decides to take a long-abandoned road that he was warned against taking. In so doing, he unleashes a chain of events involving a cursed plastics plant, malevolent plastic people, and a deadly otherworldly evil looking to add him to its collection of nightmares.
Here’s an excerpt:
Road-Sign Joe
The future is plastics!
The first sign was all white with the figure of “Fancy Joe” on the left side of it.
Fancy Joe was a cartoon man in a dapper black tux and red bowtie, his short-cut blond hair slicked up and back in that iconic ’50s style, his dress shoes a gleaming black in the late-day sun. The words “Do you know Joe?” were doled out in a curvy red font right next to him…
Average Read Time: 52m 28s
Imagine walking into an abandoned storage room filled with old newspapers and magazines, all articles stacked in bundles neatly tied with twine, but then you discover other bundles, bundles not so neatly tied, ragged bundles of yellowed and partially-charred paper tied in bloodstained twine.
You see, some stories are meant to educate, and some stories are meant to entertain, but some stories…some stories are simply looking for a victim.
Enjoy.