Ride

31Mar09

Every bump echoed in my bones as I bounced around the trunk of the car. I’d given up trying to keep track of where they might be taking me. Honestly, it probably wouldn’t matter. This wasn’t the kind of discussion that tended to end well.
Really, I should have known better then to try and skim [...]

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Tags: noir

Aiming Low

31Mar09

Joey Kern felt blood filling up his mouth. He spat and saw three teeth flying towards the pavement like  a burst of ivory bullets from a machine gun. They smacked into the pavement and bounced, just enough to splatter the pavement in speckles of blood. He wiped his lips with his right hand and kept [...]

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Tags: Joey Kern, Ron's Bowlorama

Wrong Number

30Mar09

There is a lamp glowing next to a large comfortable brown suede chair in the front room. The television light is a soft blue and it fights with the yellow light of the lamp. A quick and dirty fight, bottles and chains in the alley between the television and chair, leaving the whole area covered [...]

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Tags: Arthur Casengal

With a Bang

28Mar09

Terry’s Garage was a rundown gas station on the southwest side of the City. Signs that it had once been a major stop were covered with graffiti and the remains of leaflets. The convenience store adjacent to the garage was boarded up and of the six pumps settled laying in various states of ruin along [...]

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Tags: Carl "Big Sleep" Smith, Highway 128, Susan O'Terry, Terry's Garage