Next Exit

Low budget ethereal science fiction. One location (hotel w/café), minimal cast. The simple, eight-room motel sits isolated on a lonely desert highway, a never-traveled secondary ribbon of road crossing a barren landscape. Half the rooms are occupied, permanent residents choosing for their own reasons to live in this ethereal world that is untouched, unseen by the outside world. This world is threatened by a powerful research facility seeking to retrieve their property: several of the residents of the motel, including “Mother”, an elderly woman living in the upstairs apartment of the motel/café owners Lee and Jan. Mother forever stands watch. With unique powers developed at the research facility, she has managed to now to hide the motel from the outside world and specifically from the facility. Now, however, another with powers as great as hers has managed to find a way through Mother, to reach the motel, leaving an open path for the research facility to reach them. The residents of the motel will have to band together to fend off this threat, to save their world. Adaptation: Next Exit has been adapted to novella format, available in paperback, large print paperback, hardcover and ebook.