vernaclay @ vernaclay.com stranded in oasis ( excerpt ) 1 : reassignment veering off the u.s. 93 onto the off-ramp , maximilian rutherford iii , ground his teeth and slammed his three quarters-of-a-million dollar rv to a halt at a stop sign with graffiti declaring , `` hot as hell , '' and then turned onto a narrow , two lane road with dips that even an outrageously expensive rv could n't disguise .