Need Anything?

By Jim McDonald

Mickey has saved his money all summer, and now plans to make the big score by buying a load of hash in Detroit. His attitude is, "You gotta get out there, and make it happen." He allies himself with big Rocky from the pool room, a tough dealer who knows the ropes. In Rocky's Buick Riviera they drive through the Detroit-Windsor tunnel to make a deal in Motor City. On Plum Street they meet a dark dude who asks, "Need anything?"
. . . "Need Anything?" is a 5695-word short story. As an added bonus, enjoy the first chapter of Jim's new novel, the psychological thriller Altered Boy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jim McDonald
• Release date: May 28, 2013
• ISBN: 9780988143944

Jim McDonald

Wrote entertainment columns for Vancouver's Georgia Strait and Victoria's Monday Magazine. Covered concerts by Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, ZZ Top, The BeeGees, and Elton John. For fifteen years played drums in rock and blues bands. Toured Mid- and Western Canada. In Toronto wrote for the stage and performed monodramas and plays from 1992 to present. Have six short stories on Smashwords so far. I'm putting together cover art for more stories available soon.

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Need Anything?

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Published by

Amalit Publishing, Toronto

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ISBN: 978-0-9881439-4-4

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Copyright ©2013 by Jim McDonald

Cover Design by Amalit Publishing

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Need Anything?

I’m working all summer, two jobs, saving scratch to make a killing before school starts. During the week I work for the City of Windsor on a garbage truck. Weekends play drums around town. By August I have myself a car, good condition, and lotsa folding cash for a pound of hash. Gonna sell quarter ounces, and double my money.

Usually, I cop dime grams here and there from Skinny. But Skinny’s wrecked again, spikin’ scag. Answers the door in his tattered bathrobe that keeps falling open. Nobody needs to see that. He forces one eye open, and sees it’s me. ‘Sup, says Skinny. Need anything? ‘Nother dime?

Nah, I say, dimes’re all cool and shit, but where can I cop an elbow?

Ah, man, he says, trying to hold the bathrobe