Bottom of the Barrel
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Last published Mon, Dec 10, 2018
Coda had nothing to lose. Given to life on the streets at the age of twenty, he's been struggling along, busking where he can for cash. When offered a chance to escape the dead-end town, he decides he'd rather take the chance on his strange travel-partner than stay where everyone knew the name his parents chose for him.
Rivet is an ex-convict, not even thirty yet, busking on the streets just the same as Coda, but in the younger man's eyes, he sees a fierceness that he remembers all-too well, and Rivet didn't want to see it extinguished as his had been. Helping a naive young man survive the world might make him feel like a normal person again-- or it could make him feel a whole new set of emotions.
Who's to say this won't be a learning experience for both of them?
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