Title: Riding the Bullet
First published: May 1, 2002
Description: When he gets a call that his mother has suffered a stroke, college student, Alan Parker, has no car to get him from the University of Maine campus to Lewiston where she has been hospitalized.  He is able to hitch a ride with a stranger who offers him a no-win choice.
([source][1])


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Also included in:

 - [Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales][2]


  [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/short_story/riding_the_bullet.html
  [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81584W/Everything's_Eventual
Subjects: horror, stroke, hitchhiking, headstones, amusement rides, short stories, occult, Fiction, ghost, Spanish American fiction
Places: University of Maine, Lewiston, Maine, Thrill Village, Laconia, New Hampshire
People: Alan Parker, George Staub