This one starts off with a literal bang. Our title character (“Tuff” is Winston Foshay’s tag name) regains consciousness after fainting in fear during a drug-den-invasion execution of his partners in narcotics crime. This combination of grim and comic characterizes the language and the events of ...
They have hubris hours. There is no designated time for hubris hour. It happens unexpectedly and without warning. The bartender doesn’t ring a bell at five P.M., announce that for the next two hours drinks are two for one, and that sage advice and unmitigated superciliousness are on the house. In...
The white boys at the beach called it “bummer,” as in the “Bummer of ’42.” The weather reports were nothing but nonstop references to record rainfall and continuous cloud cover. Every day, at around nine thirty, a low-pressure system settled over the coastline and it’d pour off and on until early...