By the time the kids started working at the voodoo shop, Miss Cara had been completely rehabilitated. She had been drug-free for five years, regained custody of Spider, and even was a narcotics anonymous sponsor at the Grace House meetings on Camp Street. As a matter of fact, she was Jesi’s sponsor. Jesi had been…
CH 11: The Aftermath
Country Mike’s whole torso was sticking out of the fifth floor window of Charity Hospital, trying to decide if his cigarette smoke was more tolerable than the muggy New Orleans air while also trying to be aware of the cacophony of buzzes and beeps leaking from the room into the night. Spider, who was reclining…
Ch 10: The Dweller on the Threshold
“Good boys pray.” The whisper woke George into a dark room with only creeping fingers of light shedding clues to his whereabouts. He rubbed his face with his palms trying to make some sense of his situation. This has to be Spider’s apartment, but where is everyone, and why is everything moved around? George groped…
Lords of Magazine Street: The Ice Cream Gangsters 