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Six Mile Store
What you need to know before your trail
Honey’s working weekends down at the Six Mile, trying to figure her life out. Her boyfriend’s about to leave the country, her college advisor hates her guts, her momma ain’t listening, and she’s got this cop breathing down her neck just about all the time.
She finds a friend in her new colleague Lisa, but when one of their regular customers turns up dead, everything goes sideways faster than a greased hog at the county fair…
Locations
Reset- America/USA - Arkansas - Conway
- A: Eight Mile Service Station
- B: Springfield Des Arc Bridge
- C: Little Rock - Robinson Center
- D: Little Rock - State Capitol
- E: , Bentonville - Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
- F: Eureka Springs
- G: Eureka Springs - Christ of the Ozarks
- H: Crater of Diamonds State Park
- I: Eureka Springs - Thorncrown Chapel
Travel Guide
Conway Arkansas
The author says:
In 1998, Conway, Arkansas, was home to three universities. Every September the population roughly doubled, and every May it roughly halved again. In term time it fizzed with potential and youthful energy (and traffic); in summer, it was just a small town with fields stretching out around it for miles. And despite the number of college-age students, you could drive in any direction for half an hour and not find a single place to buy a beer. This is the time and place that inspired my novella, Six Mile Store.
During my own college years, I worked at the Eight Mile Store, the gas station that inspired the titular store. (Eminem made it impossible to give the store its original name.)
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BookTrail Boarding Pass: Six Mile Store
Destination/location: Conway, Arkansas, Eureka Springs Author/guide: AM Belsey Departure Time: 2026
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