Before it Goes Black

Don’t scratch you head, fool. Don’t even try. What you lookin at? Keep walking. I don’t even get to face the voice before a…
Sudden push in my lower back – doesn’t feel violent at all, more like being hit by a pillow – jars my head towards the sky. A cloud [...]

Frank Speaking

Frank Tomelli always talked sweetly and with great patience to the elderly patrons of the store. If a customer became impatient, he matched their irritability with even more patience.
Other stock clerks in the grocery department confused this with kissing ass and teased Frank for it.
“She’ll be thinking about that ass-kissing later, I guarantee it,” [...]