hello!

Hello, and welcome to the guestbook at the Thunder Lodge motel.

At the website for my novel, How Far Is the Ocean from Here, I asked readers to write in with their best worst motel stories. (A great deal of the novel takes place at a rather down-at-the-heels roadside motel in a dusty stretch of the southwest.) The reward for such troubles? A handmade chapbook containing an extra story about Frankie, one of the characters in the book.

Anyway, I was impressed and horrified (in a pleasant way) at the stories people wrote in with.

And thus, I am posting them here.

Thank you to everyone who wrote in!