Dare Me I’ll Do It

Lurch sat at the bar and surveyed the customers. That was the problem with small towns, he thought. You knew everybody and everybody knew you.

In Chicago, he’d wear shorts to show his prosthetic leg and the barflies would naturally assume he was a veteran. He never actually claimed this status, but he didn’t discourage it. He wore dog tags and BDU shorts and boots. In some Chicago bars, he seldom had to buy a drink.

But everybody here knew he’d lost the leg jumping off a train. “Dare me,” he’d said.

He’d been drunk, of course.

Then and now.

 

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