title: August Roads: Novellas
author:  Kirk Ward Robinson 
description: Anguished people hit the road in this dazzling pair of novellas.
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  Contents
  
  Author’s Note
  
  Epigraph
  
  Introduction
  
  Mile 81
  
  Premium Harmony
  
  Batman and Robin Have an Altercation
  
  The Dune
  
  Bad Little Kid
  
  A Death
  
  The Bone Church
  
  Morality
  
  Afterlife
  
  Ur
  
  Herman Wouk Is Still Alive
  
  Under the Weather
  
  Blockade Billy
  
  Mister Yummy
  
  Tommy
  
  The Little Green God of Agony
  
  That Bus Is Another World
  
  Obits
  
  Drunken Fireworks
  
  Summer Thunder
  
  Author’s Note
  
  Some of these stories have been previously published, but that doesn’t mean
  they were done then, or even that they’re done n