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Nickys' pals: coast-to-coast and not the same hardboil

Unlike Nick's narration, these stories display as single page pure text. No pics, mouse-over, sounds or scroll-box. So Nicky sez pull up your lounge, pour a Turkey ... burn the Camel. Pick a voice. Nicky's heard it all - your turn now.

Will Scranton narrates SPOKANE EXIT

Ben Hricko narrates AN ORPHAN AT TAHOE

Tony Vitalle narrates HI CHARLESTON COTTON

Anita Bowers narrates COP DOWN

Ibn-Ali Jerrah narrates AND IF I SEE HER AGAIN

Ibn-Ali Jerrah narrates STAR CROSS

Tony Vitalle narrates SAVANNAH LIMITED

Will Scranton narrates YOUR KIDDING

Anita Bowers narrates NEW BLOOD

Ben Hricko narrates MISS ME LUV?

Will Scranton narrates SECOND CHANCE



SPOKANE EXIT..............The night, a bar, a drink and a dame -whats not perfect, nothing except a dead body  floating the river, twisted pals on a cellphone and biker chicks with switchblades ...

AN ORPHAN AT TAHOE........No damned good it did me, running ... Prisy wept as the storm howled in - the dead whore was 3000 miles away, but she wouldn't stay there and wouldn't stay dead - not the parts that mattered and Nicky was flying into Reno to make sure.

HI CHARLESTON COTTON......Made in America - crooks only and the Feds not jeans no more - course a tough man used ta the crooks and the Feds might find the American jeans - if he fishes for them offshore.

COP DOWN..................The Lieutenants a bastard - a dark alley of a man - I saved his life, but I wouldnt hang onto him all night.

AND IF I SEE HER AGAIN....Its family matters you know that are deadly - those hateful memories between brother and sister. But the older the family, anticipating fame and power the more deadly the hate.

STAR CROSS................Jerry-the-Arab and Ben Hricko stalk cross a marsh, after Hrickos squeeze - she had pilfered computer files describing how Jerry and Ben would distroy eachother - some pals, huh, but together and alive a bush sniper is trying to do it first.

SAVANNAH LIMITED..........A night-train ta nowhere - real pals dont care. But who's yer pal? How long is the longest night? How does it start, why does it end?

YOUR KIDDING............Every old Victorian has two drop-dead gorgeous babes. A wise man chills,  tinkers and plays the long game. But, a waxed cockatoo made that tough. 

NEW BLOOD...............One hurricane, one smashed Ashley Marina, a drunk bitch, one dead frail and her killer ---- and two cops. My 357-cal & Nicks 10-gauge  even the odds.

MISS ME LUV..............Any found woman -  you don't need to know her game to know its a game - her heat and her lies and the killing. But perfect as she was, I played and though taken, she might not need to kill me.

SECOND CHANCE ...........One brick Victorian, three women three men and a webzine. Needles and Salty an odd couple, yet no balance; even Janey-girl will tell ya that.  One's gotta go.

Like Charleston, Nicks pals & enemies have their own stories, deceits, voices and lives. Dark whispered aspects. Story locations span the country as well as the memes we consider natural. Certainly each narrator appears in stories narrated by others, or in the scrolled tales Nick DeLeon spins. People and settings differ, but the boulevards voice remains the same. Even off-balanced and skeptic I'm tryn' ta listen. From horror ta romance, hardboil to fantasy tell ya what I hear. These are the narrators:

Will Scranton: journalist runs HRI webzine from an aging Victorian mansion in Spokane
Ben Hricko: Isle of Palms eco-perv, technophile, womanizer & dealer of lost value
Tony Vitalle: SOB broker, rough customer, got pals break yer leg him too
Sargent Bowers: Nicks partner, and 'twin' in a parallel universe; not TOO parallel
Ibn-Ali aka Jerry-the-Arab: arch-villian, Hrickos nemesis. A bad man to know the truth