Scab: The Musical

01Dec09

“The cuffs are biting me raw,” he said with a tone that aimed for hardened tough and landed on frightened youth. There was a quiver running from his eyes straight through his toes and the cuffs rattled on the table at the same time it shook from the movement. “I didn’t do nothing,” he continued, [...]

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Tags: Barkley DeTroux, Bedford County Mental Health Institue, Miles Garkane, Officer Curtis, Officer McKay

One for the Road

30Nov09

One hour.
That is what they gave me.
One hour head start to get out of town and lose myself in the world. One hour to put it all together and leave before they just gun me down in the street.
I take to the car. An original 1932 18 Ford Deuce Coupe, three window suicide door model. [...]

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Tags: Rockville Flats, Sally Mahone, Travis Techt

Grand Prix

26Nov09

Something rattled beneath the hood. At 70 mph rounding a corner on a dirt track in a single seat car with no hood and a tiny leaded glass windshield between you and the wind, this was the sound of a creak in the stairs to a five year-old. You don’t know what it its, you [...]

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Tags: Fireball Kid, Lefty Tannoi

Devil’s Thorn

25Nov09

“You think, you’re tough? You aint nothing but a stain that hasn’t settled in the rug,” he says. But that’s Jimmy Slug for you. Two arms attached to a body governed by a light that just won’t stay on. Punch drunk? Punch stoned? Punch dead. Jimmy went eighty fights without going down, lost seven of [...]

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Tags: Curtis "Ragman" Josenhaur, Jimmy Slug, The Circuit