Marty's Place

By Mike Ramon

A short story. Marty spends a rainy day working at the diner that bears his name. It seems like a normal day...except for the news reports of an escapee from a nearby state hospital being on the loose When a strange man walks into the diner later that night, Marty realizes this may not be such a normal day after all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Ramon
• Release date: Dec 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005213091

Mike Ramon

Born and bred in the Midwest.

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Marty's Place

Mike Ramon

© 2020 M. Ramon

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It was raining when Marty Sheppard woke up in the morning, tired from too little sleep. It was raining as Marty ate a breakfast of leftover spaghetti that he didn’t bother to reheat, the sauce like congealed blood in his mouth. It was raining as he sat around watching old cartoons dressed in a wife-beater and boxers, and it continued raining when he made lunch (a frozen turkey TV dinner that he heated up in the microwave because the oven took too long). It was raining when he realized that his car wouldn’t start, the damn hunk of junk that he should have replaced a year ago when his cousin offered him a used vehicle that could be paid off in installments. It was raining during the entirety of his walk to work, the leaden afternoon sky dumping an ocean