The East Side: Story 1

By Dale Wiley

The East Side is a night place.

The name itself is catchall for all the little towns, Sauget, Brooklyn, Washington Park on the other side of the Mississippi River from St. Louis, which, as places go, munch off a greasy diet of sin and fear, lined with a potent combination of dark bars stained with the grimy residue of what’s left of men’s souls, of strip clubs, massage parlors, casinos, pony palaces, sex shops and dance clubs. It’s 24-hour bars and X-ed out teenagers, all among tall, phallic mills and factories, coughing, sputtering, stinking places, choking out anything not drunk or high or horny enough to notice. It starts just across the Mississippi, a fingernail into Illinois, where towns are nothing more than land and square footage calculations for those big mills, pockets lined for everyone involved.The East Side goes further geographically, other cities needing their share of the grift, the girls and the stories.

Meet Montana. Or that's what she calls herself. Find out who she is confessing to killing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dale Wiley
• Release date: Mar 2, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370491926

Dale Wiley

Dale Wiley has had a character named after him on CSI, owned a record label, been interviewed by Bob Edwards on NPR's Morning Edition and made motorcycles for Merle Haggard and John Paul DeJoria. He has three awesome kids and spends his days working as a lawyer fighting the big banks.

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THE EAST SIDE

CANTO I

By Dale Wiley

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CANTO I

It was self-defense.

It was self defense.

It was self-defense.

I’m not dumb. The way that mirror looks, I know there’s a camera behind it. But I don’t care. Are you there? You can listen. I’m telling the truth.

I don’t mind telling anyone my story. Because, as I might have mentioned it was self defense.Who knows how much longer before you come in. I mean, you’ve gotta give me brownie points for turning myself in. Didn’t have to do that. In fact, I probably could have been fifty miles from here before they would have started to piece it together. But I say it again: It was self-defense. No reason to run.

Matter of fact, I held up pretty well.