Two old friends. The open highway. a farmhouse for a weekend of drinking and reminiscing old times. It was all fun and games until they got behind the dead meat truck. That's when the dares began. And that's when things went south. In an attempt at rekindling a crumbling relationship with his best friend, Jamie invites Adam out to his family farmhouse for a weekend of fun and relaxation. As it turns out, old habits die hard, and dealing with the consequences is even harder. With his marriage on the rocks, Jamie thought that maybe he could find solace in time spent with an old friend, but there's no peace when Adam's around. The road trip from Tennessee to Kentucky behind the rot-stinking tallow truck is full of twists and turns and banter between two old friends who might not even like each other. The question what's under the tarp? The only way to find out is to FOLLOW THE MAGGOT WAGON. "Follow the Maggot Wagon takes the road trip narrative in a deliciously awful direction. This was an excellent character study . . . with vivid and tragic dimensionality." - Nikolas P. Robinson, author of Where Dreams Come True "Essig uses his macabre renderings immersed in rotting flesh and horrid deception to capture the deterioration of benevolence. He forces the reader to be a willing participant to a gruesome true-crime like scenario." - Horror Bookworm Reviews