No Bike
By Derek Davis
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The sunlight saved you. They had set the wire across the road, the three dead-eyed riders, the third man exuding an almost subhuman filth. Had they meant to kill you or just sever your legs? Your hog is wrecked, your arm is broken, but your anger is intact – always. You're small for a biker, but you can outthink most of the human race and you're tenacious, vicious as you seek revenge. Not for the damage to your body, but for their unforgivable arrogance of letting you live.
Turkle knows a lot, maybe too much for his own good, but he doesn't know where these bikers came from, where they were going, why they targeted him, a loner. But he'll track them down, oh yes he will. Especially the third man. Along the way, he has to play down his intelligence, put his mind in temporary storage to be one of them in their physical and moral squalor.
He'll have his way, but at what cost? To Dorsal – the only friend he has ever acknowledged – to strung-out Heaven's Baby and beautiful Sally, to dopey, innocent T Rex. To himself.
Some things are worth hunting down. But it doesn't always pay to find them.
Derek Davis
A big-city escapee, I live in the quiet hinterlands of northeast Pennsylvania. Former editor of the alternative paper now known as The Philadelphia Weekly, I've published over 60 short stories and and wrote a book-length history of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Did a bunch of freelance editing, such as running the SAP Americas customer magazine, interviews with the likes of Noam Chomsky, and smoothing English translations of German PR. I had the most fun collaborating on a screenplay with my daughter, Caitlin and writing a cycle of eight local-history plays up here – as well as vaudeville routines. My favorite activity (other than writing) is turning trees into firewood for the wood stove that provides our "central" heating. My wife is the most wonderful potter I've ever known.
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