1931 The Grand Punk Railroad: Local - Plot & Excerpts
2: 1931 The Grand Punk Railroad: Local Jacuzzi and Donny got Jack settled in a nearby second-class passenger compartment, then ran off toward the rear of the train. Left behind, Jack turned his throbbing face to the ceiling and breathed deeply. He’d said he’d be fine, but his face felt as if it could burst at any minute. His swollen eyelids were pressing down on his tender eyeballs, and they hurt, too. Aah, I might actually die like this. It wasn’t his life flashing before his eyes, but his brain had begun to project memories from his past onto the ceiling. One old memory from his childhood was the image of the time he’d buried his parents, who’d died of malnutrition, under the floor of their room. Among the poor, who couldn’t even afford graves, this was something everyone did as a matter of course. There were probably thousands and thousands of their mortal remains under the floors of the tumbledown tenements that served as immigrant dens. After that, he’d teamed up with Nick, one of the neighborhood brats, and they’d gotten up to all sorts of trouble.
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