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Grand Prix
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
“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
Booze, Mutts, and Mud
The fireflys may have lit up the night in a parade of dancing fire points, but they also acted as landing strips for the mosquitoes that were eating Jank Livard alive. At one point he had been named Jared Frank Livard, but his mother had lost enough teeth by the time of his uneventful birth [...]
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Tags: Drascal Flatt, Jank Livard, Old Man Drascal, Thunderbolt
Ice Breaker
“Let’s not pretend,” he said by way of introduction. His blind date was taken aback by the comment but nodded in a mute approval.
Her name was Sandra Quibb and she was wanted for murder in seven states for a mixture of self defense and homicidal rage. The first man she had honestly defended herself from, [...]
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Tags: Drake Capone, Milieu, Sandra Quibb