Joshua Viola

Blood and Gasoline

Blood and Gasoline

Seventeen stories screaming past the red line, tires tearing across the highway, guns stained with smoke and gore.

Seventeen stories of heroes and anti-heroes on desperate journeys, white knuckles on steering wheels, hearts pounding to the staccato beat of magnum hollow points slamming against flesh and steel.

Seventeen stories of hard-bitten souls hurtling over asphalt, the desert, the sea, and even through space itself in adventures fueled by vengeance, betrayal, madness, and murder.

Seventeen stories of tough justice, redemption, and salvation.

Hang on.

Edited by Mario Acevedo.

Table of Contents [+]

Introduction
Mario Acevedo, Editor

Foreword
John Hartness

Faster Than Weeping Angels
Gabino Iglesias

Escobar-Style
Carter Wilson

Do Over
Catherine Dilts

The Taxi Man
Angie Hodapp

Little White Lines
Jedidiah Ayres

Desert Run
Jeanne C. Stein

Grag’s Last Escape
Gary Phillips

Last Cannonball
Warren Hammond

Rescue
Merit Clark

Kiss of the Sow
Travis Heermann

My Best Friend
Les Edgerton

Flesh for the Fire
Jon Bassoff

For the Road is Heaven
Joshua Viola and Sean Eads

Black Sunshine
James R. Tuck

Garvin’s Legacy
Quincy Allen

Sitting Ducks
Manuel Ramos

Driverless
Robert Jeschonek

"Exhilarating, hard-nosed short fiction with a driven cast."
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Joshua Viola is an author, artist and film producer based in Denver, Colorado. He is the co-author of Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver - The Dead Shall Rise. He has worked on films such as Shrine of Abominations, Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon, and Steven Kostanski's Deathstalker reboot starring Daniel Bernhardt (co-produced by Guns N' Roses' Slash.) In 2024, he formed Bit Bot Media with Klayton (Celldweller) and partnered with Canadian film studio Raven Banner Entertainment and FreakZone Games.

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