Commissioned by
Patrick
DeVita
-Dillon
They say the days on Tijuana are largely successfully. Jonathan hadn’t had the cat for all. At 2:15 in the morning, he would awanight and acted as if she was always his. He thing. Sometimes it was something as a feeling dreamed) would leave just the same. Jonathan liked the structure of it. She was his and he was hers. So he grabbed a ke to find some asshole doing some asshole her. clawed her way out of his clutches unsu a gang war. That morning, unfortunately, long. She just showed up at his bar one Jonathan could hear the yelps and howls was sure Hope (whom he named afte as suddenly as she came. But for now, gun and went after the man who stole someone was trying to steal his cat. of the man stealing the cat while Hope
he was a fast bastard. Probably high on Red hen you’re chasing someone who doesn’t as being torn asunder by the cat in his hands. when he was a young lad with dreams of Tijuana were winding and tight. It’s easy childish dreams of someone who didn’t know the to get lost on the asteroid, especially w his place. He thought he was going to be some enough to care. Jonathan had, in fact, lost his way that implies. Martin escaping this hellhole. They were interplanetary gangster with all the young lad. way the world work. Didn’t know beat those childish beliefs out of As for the junkie Jonathan was chasing Eye and too mad to care that his face Not helping matters was that the stree
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‘Junkie,’ Jonathan The man in question that the hard way unnaturally fast. side businesses thought to himself. just because he didn’t Though one of his knew, never trust a involved in the sell of the forehead. The junkie as many a drug dealer junkie. Jonathan learned when one of them was a lean man running tried to kill him for not selling him Red Eye have any money. He ‘Always a fucking junkie.’ was lucky in that he only got cut on wasn’t as lucky. drugs, Jonahtan knew,
an asked, not playody Eye?” Jonathan “Is that real Blote yet. “I’m ying his hand quive a demonstraticle proof. Let’s ha gonna need a litted the junkie the on” Jonathan toss elative ease. The Rhe caught with re machine, which into his eyes like ed Eye sprayed iced as the junkie remained stone famace. Jonathan. He focused had his last high didn’t hear the unkie, such that hintely on the jur, their guns men enter the bamping, thein intheir jackboots st clanging about, twas too focused ent malicious. He ke to notic the was about to ma on the money he next door waiting man in the room ased a junkie ad. Jonathan nev to shoot them dee drugs. Junkies where he gets thngs. Had he, he we to ask such thin are to unreliable junkie before ould have shot thkie was aware of Eye. Even the jun he took the Red on before what was going the mob really is paranoia when Jonathan. It’s not out to get you.
being poor despit their hard work. Though he tried to distract himself, Jonathan was the best one of the three. This time, they were playing poker and arguing about One such matter arrived at 10:10 AM. They were three men at the bar already. yearned for something more. couldn’t help but mildly agree with their sentiment. Sure, he knew his place in the world. He didn’t want to leave Tijuana or anything. But there was a part of him who perfectly fine to facilitate their mind numbing conversation about which of them They weren’t businessmen, just customers who needed a place to talk. Jonathan was
he pulled out a in the back room” “I’m sure there’s on can replied the man as thought Jonathan. He this time the junkie sample of Red eye. ‘Least has the product,’ the back room. The simply replied that didn’t say this, but instead he would check man followed close behind.
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vodka, Still, Jonathan said, “I’ve I’m the juice.” sighed tomato when fresh he afraid got out I’m of but
looking into the sun so far too long. Like having a shine directly into your eyes. Like four hours, though that could have just been Hope. cat maul at your face for at least crumpled on the streets. Just another body for the Nobody minded the junkie home at 7 AM with 15 Woolongs he nicked from pile. Jonathan returned to haim more sleep than the next night, as he always did. the junkie and planed to get
The two who had entered many more. And she had the man was a junkie. The body like a masochistic wasn’t a traditional junkie blood. She was pregnant been unseen on Tijuana deserve a better life than constant need of glasses.
The man knocked on the table. “Give me a beer,”
Eternal Desperation, the belief that A junkie wouldn’t be happy in this world. it doesn’t live flaws in the world. they didn’t get names because they aren’t someone better
an earlier happy that Jonat which would be done in these hours. So it quite well. She might’ve stuPM, but bowl of peanuts or Hope was sleeping on one of the tables wegal matters. mind a desire to have better. Cats have At 7:45 AM, Jonath open at 8:30 AM. M than understood his arrangement an with a junkie, for example, Jonathan felt it was around for another year or so. rarely feed their pets due to being too matter their circumstances in life. Living of a bar’s set up was lesser life than living with a dealer. Junkies d headed over to El Ray, for an early morning ldn’t come until after 12 were more for extralan smoked a cigarette an busy being high, though Hope wouldn’t c times ost of the customers wo Jonathan’s. When something better came a glass of better to keep it open at person. Though, she hen the two entered the bar. She wasn’t in the people came. Most onsider herself a pet. More of a guest of a natural feeling of being owed better no customers would come along, she’d run off and be with a different beer. But the mornings
