These are the stories of the employees at a truck stop. Some of them make enough to live it up but none of them make enough to live large. When you dig deeper, you may find tales as old as the marketplace of ideas: Tales of struggle and proletariat rage. Tales of hopes and aspirations. And tales of a man with a grimy beard screaming at a maintenance worker, telling him to call 1-800-Eat-S**t.

Nick Ulanowski is a journalist, a poet, a novelist and the owner of Starving Author Press. "Massacre at the Comic Shop" is his fourth book, but it won't be his last. His previous works include "As the Moonlight Shines," "American Bug" and "Diesel Doctrine and the Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires." Nick strongly believes in the power of words and hopes that his will continue to speak truth to power.