Soon as they took out pay phones, I knowed there was a war on the poor. It’s symbolic.
Take the cops. It’s like whatever rules held them back in the old days is gone. In them times, a cop might roust a brother for sleeping where he ain’t supposed to. Maybe even they arrest you for vag and take you downtown. Depending on the time of day, you might even get a meal if you was sober enough to eat.
Not no more. Nowadays they curse you, hit you with them batons, maybe even shock you with them stun guns.
Gritty & real. Well done, Randy.
Excellent
Damn them. Damn them all to hell.
Realistic, and robust prose.
Or shoot you.
Very realistic.
Brutal! very well written.
Reality breathes through this piece. I’m thankful the brutality is not true of all police officers.
I loved the voice in this.
Polarization is an ugly, self-perpetuating thing. Whether his fears are legit or not he’s seeing life as “them against us.”
You’ve caught the voice of a lot of marginalized people.
Good story, and the opening line is terrific.