Ear Hustle: A Narrative Fiction

Then suddenly the man jumped up got her in his arms put a cloth in her mouth so that no one would hear her screams. “Drive!!”

her to "take a ride" with him in his car. She had seen this man the night before staring at her in the

was still laying on the floor dead. When she noticed that he was dead she messed up the

stopped to ask him if he knows what the consequences are of taking her. He said that

genuinely concerned for his dad, and vows to help him search for the truck. The next morning,

He snapped after being told "no" twice and drove into an alley where he put duct-tape on her face to quiet her screams.

She climbed on the back of his little street scooter and she gave him an incorrect address so he would not know

“I also know I haven't um been very nice to you so i'm sorry for that too”

“Yeah? If you were really sorry, then maybe you wouldn’t do that every time I have to come in here, now would you?”

She made her way through and then she eventually ended up into another section of the ghetto. Suddenly out of nowhere, a wolf appeared in a enormous car with huge wheels and fluffy green dice.”Yo girl!” he called to Little Hood.

He went to the inert form and took her over his shoulder, like she was a prize or booty for a pirate and went outside. He looked around at the darkness and went to the truck, putting her in the back and then putting the tarp over her. She would awake to a massive headache and terror as he went back to her apartment to clean things up.

“When did I ever say we won’t be able to make this work? When did I s-,” she began.

So the Driver cracked open his whip and hit the babe on its back and he said keep that thing quiet.

Jo wore two earrings in each ear – an elongated silver loop and a stud in the shape of a tree. On her left shoulder, a tattoo of a flock of black birds. Mandy was one of only a handful of women of her generation who had not pierced her ears. Mandy said Jo did these things to annoy her, and to be different, and to fit in.

Alis broke the kiss and sat back on her heels with a soft smile on her face. “When shall we wed?”