Good premise but felt unfinished ebook This was so tense and anxious anyone who s ever been stranded anywhere or been waiting for help with a busted car can relate to that just fucking pick up the phone and send someone to help me feeling And the end was just chefkiss perfect ebook Unsettling and dark the liminal spaces of highways are always a bit creepy and this makes it even so ebook Ooooh I wanna watch this on TV or something it was soo well paced and atmospheric ebook 4 5 ebook A professional caregiver s commute takes an unsettling detour when car trouble forces her to pull over on the highway where she begins receiving distressing phone calls from strangers At the Publisher s request this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software DRM applied Median by Kelly RobsonLike you Im a passionate reader I spent most of my teenage years either hanging out at the drugstore waiting for new issues of Asimovs Science Fiction magazine or when I was in the city lurking in the SF and Fantasy section of the bookstore This was pre Internet and since there were no bookstores in my town and the library was pretty bare good books the kind that made my heart sing were precious treasures To this day nothing is important to me than reading nothing is delicious than a great novel and few people are as important as my favorite writers. My writing life has been pretty diverse Ive edited science books and from 2008 to 2012 I had the great good luck to write a monthly wine column for Chatelaine the Like you I m a passionate reader I spent most of my teenage years either hanging out at the drugstore waiting for new issues of Asimov s Science Fiction magazine or when I was in the city lurking in the SF and Fantasy section of the bookstore This was pre Internet and since there were no bookstores in my town and the library was pretty bare good books the kind that made my heart sing were precious treasures To this day nothing is important to me than reading nothing is delicious than a great novel and few people are as important as my favorite writers. My writing life has been pretty diverse I ve edited science books and from 2008 to 2012 I had the great good luck to write a monthly wine column for Chatelaine the largest women s magazine in Canada I ve published short fiction at Tor. com Asimov s Science Fiction Clarkesworld and a number of anthologies Several of my stories have been chosen for year s best anthologies and in the past two years I ve been a finalist for several high profile awards site_link Weird and goodThis was a terrifying scenario that was both realistic and incredibly unsettling and strange I definitely could ve kept reading and reading and my only complaint was that this was too short ebook 3. 5 stars I m confused but I also kind of enjoy the confusion and all the unanswers ebook A compelling short store that was filled with frustration fear despair and finally acceptance A caregiver breaks down on the highway and all attempts to seek help are met with failure and indifference Her 911 calls will not go through yet other people calling 911 get through to her Strange things happen is it a nightmare I liked the story but it leaves me wondering what ultimately happened I would have liked a better resolution ebook A caregiver s car breaks down on the median in the middle of a highway Strangely other vehicles ignore her attempts to get help and her attempts to contact emergency services and others fail Then she starts to get calls from strangers Finally she encounters another tragic scene on the highway and perhaps realizes her situation in this strange unsettling story ebook 911 What s your emergency WaitI don t care Bugger off. Some caregiver s car breaks down on a busy highway and she s stuck in the median strip She can t seem to call 911 but lots of emergency cases start ringing her And for some reason Cerberus comes to visit only he s friendly Hmm I m confused I m sure there s a point to this story but I just didn t get it. The last book I read On Chesil Beach was a short story that was too long and this is a long story that is too short Only took an hour to readand that was with two breaks to make tea ebook