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"That's the thing about this city...""Whad ya mean stranger?"Cyde looked at his bartender in the deep crevasse of his mug. The bartender had a relatively mean and chiseled look, but Clyde was just too drunk to care. His liquid bravery has built up enough that even talking to the kingpin would be like talking to his spoiling mother."Ain't nobody got any damn respect around here!" Clyde said with a scoff half slurring and flailing his arms."Well that may be, but I ain't eva heard a problem a good bourbon n smoke didn't solve."These two men were in an ol' jazzy pe called the Green Mole smack dab ...
Scrags
"That's the thing about this city," Scrags said. "There's so many gullable fools here! I've got enough marks to last me half a century." Oliver rolled his eyes as he regarded his scruffy companion. "So what?" Oliver said. "You keep scamming people either the gangsters or coppers are gonna get you. It's a dangerous game you're playing."Scrags reached across the restaurant table to pat his youger brother on the arm. "Oliver," he said. "You've always looked out for me. But you don't seem to remember I've been around the block a couple more times than you. I know how to take care of myself." O...
ON THE FIRST DAY OF NOVEMBER
TW: abuse, suicide, murder Collins had changed. He no longer came home for dinner, neither did he sacrificwww.onedoor.cce a minute for breakfast. He would rush out to work without saying the usual"Good morning honey," with a light, sweet, and tangible tone. His subtily calm voice had morphed into an abode of quick aggression. He no longer prayed or played with me at night, nor in the morning. He became private, easily irritated, and dumb towards my words. All these negative metamorphosis started after I had my second miscarriage, on the first of October, the day my country celebrated her independence.I susp...
Riding all alone
“We’ve arrived at the station—” Karina pressed her hands on her ears to cut off the rest of the sentence. She knew how it would end. It was her god-knows-which time going this way on this train to an unknown destination. Although there wasn’t much hope left at this point, deep in her heart she wished for the journey to end, but the possibilities that came with the ending were endless and she had a feeling not all were supposed to end well. It also seemed like there were ‘ground rules’ the train had which Karina had no power against. Every time the watch would strike midnight, Karina fell asl...