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BILL CADY Word Count: 149,227 - At My Friend's Place

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Bill Cady, The Early Years … by Bill Cady 195<br />

“You wanna come out here and try, motherfucker?” I moved a bit closer, now<br />

almost at the curb.<br />

Two guys came out of the darkness, extinguishing that bright lamp as they<br />

approached. The one in front wore a near-white trench coat. The one in back had on<br />

jeans and a dark blue windbreaker.<br />

I was curious when I started, drunk before I started, and a little bit pissed at his<br />

attitude now. “What the fuck are you doing back there at this time of night?”<br />

here before?”<br />

“We were lookin‟ for night crawlers.”<br />

Uh-huh. Dressed like that? “Where are you from? I‟ve never seen you around<br />

“I live right here,” he intimated, gesturing toward the rental house with the hand<br />

holding the lantern, his right hand. I then saw he‟d been a polio victim. His left arm was<br />

withered and had only a long, pointed end, like a single finger.<br />

I also took stock of what was going on. Three in the morning, I‟m drunk, he has<br />

an alibi, and I‟m making a scene. Hmmm? Any chance I might go to jail?<br />

I saw all kinds of possibilities that way. Cop cars with bright flashing lights. Big<br />

officers with flashlights, using them to beat the shit out of me, as they‟d already done a<br />

few times. Me sitting in a concrete drunk tank, no place to lie down, listening to some<br />

wino snore like a buzz saw while some fairy wants to make me happy.<br />

Not a pretty picture. Nope, not at all. I stuck out my hand. “Okay. I apologize.<br />

It‟s just, I know John and Erna, and I was kind of worried at first. Let‟s just say it was a<br />

misunderstanding, okay?”<br />

“Fuck you, asshole.”<br />

Leviticus, Limited 33-0505963

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