POCA CITY HAD A REASONABLE NUMBER of distractions fraught with legal and other peril; however, Archer managed to avoid ...
IT’S RIGHT DOWN THIS STREET,” said Callahan as they turned off the strip. “Afriend told me it used to ...
IT WAS FIVE MINUTES before nine in the morning. The sun was scaling the sky, which was a dazzling ...
HEY. HEY, YOU!”Archer looked over and saw the woman waving enthusiastically at him.It was Liberty Callahan, of the Dancing ...
HE FOUND IT only a short distance from the hotel. Not on the main drag of Poca City, but ...
THE WHEELHOUSE WAS LOCATED in a building about as big as an aircraftcarrier, but with nicer furniture, no portholes, ...
ARCHER GOT OFF at Poca City seven hours later and too many stops in between to remember. People had ...
IN HIS HOTEL ROOM, which looked like a shower stall with halfheartedambition, Archer ditched his hat on the bed, ...
IT WAS A GOOD DAY to be free of prison.The mechanical whoosh and greasy smell of the opening bus ...
WITH A NEW DECADE LOOMING, Aloysius Archer was on a creaky busheaded west to California to seek as much ...