Crooked Pieces: Future Grit And Hard-Boiled Action - Part Three

By Mike Whitacre

Turbine 7000 Dozer tangles with an old friend to save a beatnik, who gave him a bad first impression. However, the problems will only stack on from there. As the sun sets and a new friendship is cast, Turb will not only be taken into the ugly side of corruption, but the depths of his own memories until the rain falls. Water will fall from the sky to present clearer revelations, but will those revelations bring forth a unflinching resolve or a gut-wrenching sadness?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Whitacre
• Release date: May 17, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463669150

Mike Whitacre

A fiction writer, carving his own gruesome path through his work. He often mixes genres, but is primarily interested in the Crime/Mystery genre that utilizes the style of hard-boiled writers like Raymond Chandler. He lives in California, making too many damnable mistakes.

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Crooked Pieces

Future Grit And Hardboiled Action

Part Three

By

Mike Whitacre

Crooked Pieces:

Future Grit And Hardboiled Action

(science fiction series)

Crooked Pieces, Part Three

Rough Stars:

Random Thoughts On Creativity

(series)

Rough Stars –

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Mike Whitacre

Copyright 2019 by Mike Whitacre

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Dedicated to J. Birch.

I'm not sure how you can tolerate being my editor, but I sure hope it hasn't been a thankless task thus far. Happy to call you an admirable friend and a worthy colleague, in our mutual field of fiction writing. May your work rattle like a rattlesnake!

Table of Contents

Title

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Rough Stars

Author Info

Crooked Pieces

Part Three

Dear String,

I want to tell you things are going well, that the day was saved and the good guys won... Want to tell you there's nothing to frown about.

But, you wouldn't believe my bullshit, would you?

Last letter you wrote, you said flowers don't make the sun shine, and rain will pour whether we smile or not. Maybe I'll steal that quote one of these days. You know how much I like bittersweet words.

Anyway, war's a complicated thing.

Of course, that's not