The Old Organ Trail - A Short Story

Pewtie Marshall’s days of tearing up the blue highways in his hot-rod with an Igloo full of black market organs are long behind him—or so he thinks. When Angelo “The Eliminator” Angelini calls upon Pewtie to make one last run, he knows it’s not an offer he can refuse.

Now Pewtie and his sorry-looking dog, Dave, need to gas the old hotrod and burn up the roads to the Oregon border. Between here and there, they're going to need to be invisible to CHiPSat, the murderous traffic-control satellite, and keep a weather eye in the rearview for any sign of Jimmy-Bob “Roadkill” LaRue and the Skullbusters M.C.

“The Old Organ Trail” was originally published in Writers of The Future, Volume 2, edited by Algis Budrys, in 1986. This edition includes the author's afterword, “Finding The Old Organ Trail.”