Night Freight

"Thirst" is a variation on one of the classic themes of fantasy/horror fiction. I like to flatter myself that it has a gritty Twilight Zone feel—two men wandering on foot in a trackless, unnamed desert waste, faced with the most basic of all human instincts: survival. As Flake and March plod on beneath the merciless sun, I can imagine Rod Serling stepping out from behind a reddish outcrop and delivering one of his lyrical post-teaser introductions. Any reader who has that same imaginative flash will be paying me the highest of compliments.