Lucky Day

By J.E. Kitchell

A drifter finds himself caught in the middle of a botched robbery gone bad and holding the loot. He hides it until he can retrieve it later but a crooked cop is on his tail. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: J.E. Kitchell
• Release date: Nov 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215217177

J.E. Kitchell

The author is lucky to live in the Sierra Nevada mountains. He likes to relax with an occasional hardboiled detective novel and occascionally writes hardboiled noir shorts. 

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LUCKY DAY

1

Monday was my lucky day.

I leaned my head against the cool tiles over the urinal with my eyes closed to avoid the blueish overhead light. The only sound besides my piss splashing against the  porcelain was the hum of the light. The room must be soundproof. You couldn’t hear dishes rattling, trucks on the highway or, as it turns out, a robbery.

I finished and continued to lean against the wall for some time. It felt good to just stand there with my eyes closed in the quiet. The nagging thought that I had to get cleaned up and go to a job interview this morning didn’t prod me to move any faster. I wanted to stay here in this quiet, private little room away from all the bustle outside those doors.

I couldn’t lean here with my crank hanging out all day. If someone came in and saw me, they might think I’m trolling for a hookup, the one way to earn money I never wanted to try. or worse, they’d hit on me, in which case it was likely that someone would get their ass beaten down. That seemed like too much unpaid work for me to pursue today.

I zipped up and toddled to the sink to wash my hands. The mirror was smudged and freckled with milky white dried water droplets, but I could still make out the train wreck of a human that stared back at me. Jesus, go on one bender and you add twenty years to your face. I probably should have