Rest Stop (short story)
Author John Dykstra, who writes under the pen name Rick Hardin, has had too much beer to drink at his mystery writer's group meeting and desperately needs to find a rest stop on his return from Jacksonville, Florida to Sarasota, Florida.He hears a woman's and a man's voice coming from the bathroom, and the sounds of domestic abuse.Dykstra is too timid and frightened to act, but he assumes the mentality of his alter-ego, Hardin, and attacks the man with a tire iron.After some time, Hardin mentally reverts to Dykstra, who begins to vomit out the side of his vehicle when the adrenaline rush of the incident wears off.In April 2019, it was announced that Legendary Entertainment would develop a film adaptation of the short story, with Alex Ross Perry set to write and direct.