A Rain Sad Day: A Tale of the Sportsmens' Club

By David Seed

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Western Grebe Publishing
• Release date: May 2, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301757497

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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Tales of the Sportsmen’s Club

A Rain Sad Day

by David Seed

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Prologue

A Rain Sad Day

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.

A Rain Sad Day

I awake to the sound of tires on wet pavement. Damp air drifts across my face, and I open my eyes. I reach for Little Doll’s pillow and find the note. It informs me of the inclement weather and suggests I forego my morning walk and come to the bar. I get up, close the window and get dressed.

I go down the back stairs and enter the bar from the hallway. Little Doll sees me coming and pours a cup of coffee.

I’m glad you stay out of the rain, she says and serves me the coffee.

Thank you, I say. "Coffee is