Red Lights Dark Roads

Red lights. Dark roads. A city that never sleeps—and a man learning how to live inside its noise.

On nights when sirens stretch too long and fireworks sound too close, Allen DeKeyser walks the block with Harley at his side. What begins as survival turns into a handbook of resilience, written in chalk lines, cones, wallet cards, and the ordinary objects most people overlook.

Red Lights, Dark Roads is not a tale of escape but of endurance—finding safety in the small rituals that make fear negotiable and community possible. In these pages, you'll discover:

•The proof of ordinary things: lamps, porches, and chalk stars that keep the dark from owning the night.
•The practice of survival: how counting between flash and boom becomes arithmetic for staying steady.
•The power of community: neighbors who raise their palms instead of fists, a library that lends quiet, and a shelter that believes naps are policy.

Equal parts memoir, novel, and survival liturgy, this book asks: What does it mean to keep going when the world won't quiet down?

For anyone who has flinched at thunder, mistaken backfire for a bullet, or longed for proof that ordinary people can out-rehearse panic, this is your map.

Red lights don't mean stop forever. Dark roads don't stay dark when we carry light together.