Guns, Drugs & Thugs: Drug Store Spree

By Wayne T. Dowdy

11:00 AM, August 14th: Three thugs cruised through the parking lot of a shopping mall in a small North Georgia town of the southeastern United States. A sawed-off shotgun laid under the driver’s seat. The black handle of a semiautomatic pistol protruded from the waistband of the shotgun rider’s pants. Another gun stretched across the back seat and floorboard at an angle. A merciless August sun bore down on the Dodge Charger as the thugs eased by the line of stores on the right side of the car. The rumbling of the headers on the 440-magnum echoed under the canopy where patrons strolled before entering stores. A REVCO drug store sat at the end of the long-line of businesses. I’m one of the thugs, a retired thug.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wayne T. Dowdy
• Release date: Feb 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370078028

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Wayne T. Dowdy

Guns, Drugs & Thugs

Drug Store Spree

Though Categorized as Fiction

Truth Dominates its Content

Wayne T. Dowdy

Murder Slim Press published a former version of Guns, Drugs and Thugs: Drug Store Spree

Savage Kick Magazine, #9, 2017

GUNS, DRUGS AND THUGS

DRUG STORE SPREE

Copyright © 2017 by Wayne T. Dowdy

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Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. All characters are totally from the imagination of the author and depict no persons, living or dead; any similarity is coincidental.

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Wayne T. Dowdy

Atlanta, Georgia

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GUNS, DRUGS AND THUGS

DRUG STORE SPREE

11:00 AM, August 14th: Three thugs cruised through the parking lot of a shopping mall in a small North Georgia town of the southeastern United States. A sawed-off shotgun laid under the driver's seat. The black handle of a semiautomatic pistol protruded from the waistband of the shotgun rider's pants. Another gun stretched across the backseat and floorboard at an angle. A merciless August sun bore down on the Dodge Charger as the thugs eased by the line of stores on the right side of the car. The rumbling of the headers on the 440-magnum echoed under the canopy where patrons strolled before entering stores. A REVCO drug store sat at the end of the long-line of businesses. I'm one of the thugs, a retired thug.

Nathan drove the car, I rode shotgun, Rodney sat in the backseat. Each of us had been awake for days, me for over three weeks, other than a four-hour Quaalude-induced-nap. I pointed toward a bank in the far-left corner of the plaza, beside where the parking lot met the road. When we come out, we'll go that way, I said. Any cops should come from the other direction. As we drove by the drug store, I glanced inside to check the layout. Nothing seemed any different than all the other REVCOs. After we passed by, we checked out the route we'd take when leaving, especially if pursued by the law. No one liked that thought, of course, but I had prepared for it by buying a clip-fed, bolt-action, twelve-gauge goose gun with a thirty-six-inch barrel, the gun taking up space in the