Seventeen-year-old Tyler is three hours into his first solo cattle run across the high desert, alone on a two-lane at one in the morning, when he pulls off at a rest area set half a mile back from the highway. One concrete building. No windows. No lights for fifty miles.Something knocks on the door.His grandfather taught him one rule for country this empty: if something calls to you out here, and you know there is no one who could be calling, you do not answer it. You give it nothing. It cannot find you until you answer. Tyler is seventeen and frightened, and frightened people want the world to make sense, so they keep talking to it until it does.By morning the thing outside has learned his voice.Rest Stop is a slow-burn desert horror story about isolation, inherited warnings, and the oldest rule there is — a story where the danger is never quite where you are looking. An original horror audiobook, written and narrated by James Cawley.Content note: psychological horror, isolation, implied threat. No gore.A new story every week. Free stories and the newsletter at EnterTheDust.com.