On Death and Redemption: A Tale of the Sportsmen's Club
By David Seed
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The Sportsmen's Club is a two-story, skid-row structure of connected buildings housing a bar, a poker room, and a Chinese restaurant. The Sportsmen's Hotel reaches across the upper floor.
Business depends on a subculture of alcoholics, hustlers, shills, gamblers, and those in need of a cheap room. Among them is Alexander Kyness who seems to have chosen the club as a place in which to live a life of obscurity. His friends call him "Kindness."
In this odd little world of greed, deception, and predation, Kindness maintains an attitude of detachment. But his aversion to entanglement may meet its match in "Little Doll" Grey, the bar manager whose formidable wit keeps order over the misfits and malcontents in this place where something interesting always happens.
This story lives up to its title, "On Death and Redemption". There are deaths as well as near death experiences, a surprise from Drunk Bob, ghosts in the night, and a change in personality.
David Seed
###About the author:David Seed was born August 15, 1931 in Minot, North Dakota. In his eleventh year the family moved to Dunsmuir, California where he graduated high school, believing himself to be a writer. In the fall of 1949 he started at the University of California at Berkeley and did his best to learn what he could of life. He managed to graduate in the spring of 1956 and continued to follow his calling, experiencing a chaotic life as both participant and observer. He is now an old man writing books in Oregon.
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On Death and Redemption - David Seed
Tales of the Sportsmen’s Club
On Death and Redemption
by David Seed
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prologue
On Death and Redemption
About the Author
PROLOGUE
The Sportsmen's Club is a two-story, skid-row structure of connected buildings housing a bar, a poker room, and a Chinese restaurant. The Sportsmen's Hotel reaches across the upper floor.
Business depends on a subculture of alcoholics, hustlers, shills, gamblers, and those in need of a cheap room. Among them is Alexander Kyness who seems to have chosen the club as a place in which to live a life of obscurity. His friends call him Kindness.
In this odd little world of greed, deception, and predation, Kindness maintains an attitude of detachment. But his aversion to entanglement may meet its match in Little Doll
Grey, the bar manager whose formidable wit keeps order over the misfits and malcontents in this place where something interesting always happens.
On Death and Redemption
A month after Charlie’s ashes were scattered over a sugar beet field, Little Doll decides to take up residence in Charlie’s room. It’s a room and a half with the amenities of a small apartment. Little Doll gets rid of the mattress and ratty furniture. She hires people to clean and paint, and she buys new things.
I hear about all this but don’t see the results, so when I knock on the door and hear her say to