"Uba Uba in Love": A Tale from 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.
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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"Uba Uba in Love" - David Seed
Tales of the Sportsmen’s Club
Uba Uba in Love
by David Seed
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prologue
Uba Uba in Love
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.
Uba Uba in Love
I rarely lose track of time doing research, but this afternoon the hours slip by, and I’m late getting back to the club. I know Little Doll will be waiting, but I’d rather be the one waiting.
I go in through the back hallway, and I see Carlo is already working his shift. I enter the bar and spot Little Doll sitting at the round table. She’s talking to Rita but stops when she catches sight of me.
And there he is,
she says, come to rescue me.
She and Rita both smile and look as if they think something’s funny. I go over to the table.
Rescue you from what?
I ask.
From the cold and lonely night,
she says.
She smiles, Rita giggles, and I wonder what in the devil’s going on. I slide a chair close to Little Doll and sit down. I glance at the two empty glasses on the table.
"What’re you