Red Shuttleworth's False Starts is an episodic novella.  A name-withheld Existential man, homeless and getting-by on random opportunities, some quite criminal, travels the American West, its highways and small towns.

Red Shuttleworth received a 2016 Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Poetry... and a 2017 Tanne Foundation Award for Playwriting and Poetry.  His writing has appeared in hundreds of journals over the past half-century.