hadn’t seen a heat wave like this in over twenty years and people weren’t quite sure how to handle it. They were flocking in droves to places that offered some kind of reprieve from the conditions, including the strip club where Alice worked: The Palms. That wasn’t her real name, of course, but...
A pretty young woman, dressed in a tight corset and an ill-fitting hoop skirt, sauntered up to Davin with a tipsy stagger. She rested her hand on his shoulder and took a deep puff of her short cigarette. “Hey soldier,” she hollered over the din, “how was it today?” Davin knocked back the last ha...