Hard Up! A Tale of Champion City

By J. Walt Layne

Pro Se Productions, the home of the Pro Se Single Shot Signature line of digital singles, announces the first tale in a new author focused digital single imprint. From the Pen of J. Walt Layne features stories by the Author of Pro Se Productions’ Champion City series of books (A Week in Hell, Breathless). Within this imprint, Layne will explore both familiar fields and new grounds of storytelling.

In Hard Up! A Tale of Champion City, the first story in J. Walt Layne’s From the Pen of..., a man with no name and a monkey on his back roll into Champion City in the wee hours. There's no rest for a man in trouble with the mob. Personal demons and dead bodies revisit a man hard up and down on his luck.

From the Pen of J. Walt Layne. A Pro Se Single Shot Signature writer’s imprint from Pro Se Productions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pro Se Press
• Release date: Feb 1, 2015

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FROM THE PEN OF J. WALT LAYNE

HARD UP!

A Tale from Champion City

by J. Walt Layne

Published by Pro Se Press

Part of the SINGLE SHOTS SIGNATURE line

This book is a work of fiction. All of the characters in this publication are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead is purely coincidental. No part or whole of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the permission in writing of the publisher.

Copyright © 2015 J. Walt Layne

All rights reserved.

It was after midnight when I cruised into Champion City. I’d left Santa Monica thirty-nine hours before and had stopped twice on my way across the country, to piss in Pueblo, Colorado and to buy smokes and eat a bite at the Flying Wheel in Davenport, Iowa. Needless to say, I was dragging.

I’d come to Champion City