Croupier smoking a cigarette, hesitates picking up the red phone; His father has a job for him, he doesn’t want it. “Jacko, call Mr. Reynolds at the Golden Lion Hotel.” I’m reminded of the little room in the school library where I called my father up every day at noon…
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Mentor
Sometimes I think about being for someone else what I needed the most and lost to time and death. Mentors like fathers are not immune to the call from the beyond. They may leave you at any time like the tobacco that sits on the purple table blown away to…
Continue Reading...74’s
It was a cool Halloween morning when I got my AD 74’s in a town founded by an Irishman, a town nobody knows, and nobody cares about —I finally got my 74’s. “Careful your heart doesn’t burst in your chest, kid.” She didn’t really say that, but maybe I heard…
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I slam the pen down on my desk, not hard, but the exasperation is noticeable. I step out now into the rooftop balcony with a plastic resealable bag. I sit down on a red foldable camping chair and attempt to light a Little & Wild with some matches from the…
Continue Reading...The Land of the Hicks
So, we were standing there in the scorching northern heat. We had to wait until one o’clock for the parcel customer service office to open up. I dressed sharp, trying to do some Crockett action, but my colors were too dark. A lady with a blown-out knee stepped out of…
Continue Reading...I can only write what comes from the soul
I can only write what comes from the soul, my greatest drivers — sorrow, solace, and despair. I can only write what comes from the soul, these drivers are terrible things, they bring about an impossible way to live. I can only write what comes from the soul, sorrow, solace,…
Continue Reading...Ms. Y
Walking down from the nice hotel and casino down in the burning south. A checkered corridor leads me to a room with some books. Larsen is there, so is Kinney. A and I head to Jalapeño´s, then to Chango’s. The walk takes us from Reina, to Union, to Concordia, and…
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