Fractions

By Ray Daley

Living a hustlers life on the mean streets of the city ain't easy! Working long hours every day just to survive.

But it's even tougher when you've lost a friend on those very same streets. And you're within reach of the one who killed him!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ray Daley
• Release date: Aug 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311003478

Ray Daley

Ray Daley was born in Coventry & still lives there. He served 6 yrs in the RAF as a clerk & spent most of his time in a Hobbit hole in High Wycombe. He is a published poet & has been writing stories since he was 10. His current dream is to eventually finish the Hitch Hikers fanfic novel he's been writing since 1986.

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Fractions

Raymond Daley

Copyright 4/5/15 by Raymond Daley

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Eight days. Eight long days of hustling wide-eyed tourists around the shortest possible loop I could make while still keeping him within sight.

I'd taken the first one, mostly as a joke. I'm still not sure if that particular joke was at his expense, or mine. Either way, when the skinny old Asian man held up his smart-phone, muttered something incomprehensible into it and it'd asked me Are you a guide?, something deep at the back of my mind had made me say "Yes.

I'd made a big dog and pony show about the whole thing, taking a full twenty minutes to slowly lead the old man first up, then back down the one block of strip where I'd been able to get a visual on his area of operations.

I knew his street crew were already watching me, I'd spent the previous three days running the gauntlet of spotters, dickerers, pitch-men, beggars, muggers and whores. All his people. All sent out to assess this new interloper in their midst.

Anyway, I'd sidled the elderly Asian gentleman up and down the block, stopping every few paces to point out features of local