Poison Ash Road

In the blistering aftermath of a deindustrialized New Federalist state, two escaped convicts from the notorious Barlow Correctional Facility cross a barren landscape scarred by hollowed-out towns and silent smokestacks. Isaiah Cross, a man hardened by a system that transformed penitentiaries into modern slave plantations, and Marcus Reed, a former trustee poisoned by the bargain of survival, share a dark secret from inside the walls. As state troopers and a vindictive warden close in along the fading highway, their fragile brotherhood erodes under the weight of guilt, betrayal, and the toxins of an era that built cages from the ruins of the American dream. It is a road story of existential dread and inevitable self-destruction, where every mile promises a reckoning.