Roadkill

Trapped inside our next world. An impassable freeway. No future. No past. One slim hope.

Two unlikely allies: Mary, The Golden Woman--professor, mistress to the brass, historian--and Keats, a broken and doomed bonded worker with nothing left to lose. A fateful night of escape that steers them into the private museum preserve of The Company that rules the world. Is the museum a trap? Is the freeway at the other end of the preserve as impassable as it is back in the bonded workers' camp? Will Mary and Keats find freedom or die under the rodancer wheels on the Liberty Freeway?

An extraordinary story of captivity, the resilience of love, and the irrepressible human need for freedom. A novel of imagination by award-winning author Barry Grills.

Roadkill is a dystopic novel set in the future. Written about the triumph of the human spirit, about defying incredible odds, and the blooming of love across barriers of culture, economics and traditional experience, the novel is one part social commentary and one part futuristic adventure story.

Mary, a history professor at "The Company" university, wishes to escape the stifling autocratic regime in which she lives and works. A Bonded worker named Keats, under the influence of a sense-expanding drug called existentialene, flees the work camp where he lives, into a mysterious region at the edge of his city, known as The Open Space.

Encountering one another unexpectedly in this mysterious and uncharted setting, Mary and Keats-pursued by The Company's security forces, known as Calvins-form an uneasy alliance as they flee deeper into what they soon discover is a large museum of fabricated eco-regions.

Roadkill is a chilling speculation about a world in the not-too-distant future where religion, history and all aspects of human life are manipulated by The Company: a sprawling corporate empire of interconnected factory branches and work camps.