Good Night Charlie Marks
by Perry P. Perkins
eBook ISBN: 9781615720668
Price: $ 2.50
Genre: Horror
Sub Genre: none
Short Story of 7881 words
Sex rating: 1
Violence rating: 4
Edited by Lea Schizas
Cover Artwork by Annie Melton
About the book:
"A villager and his wife had a goose that laid a golden egg every day…" – Aesop
It's 1979 and in the hottest corner of Hell's Kitchen, Charlie Marks has a wonderful, terrifying secret."
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Excerpt:
Charlie, that’s Charlie Marks, and I grew up together on the west side in a neighborhood affectionately known as Hell’s Kitchen. Sure, you’ve heard of it, everyone has. There’s been no end of gangster flicks, low budget black and whites from the fifties that based their hood with a heart-o-gold stories in the Kitchen, but I’ll tell you this: in 1979 the place was the unwashed armpit of the New York. Thirtieth to West Fifty-Ninth Street, Eighth Avenue to the Hudson, it ain’t nothing more that a long, hot ghetto of rat-infested tenements and aging brownstones, a festering violent place, covered in bright aerosol cryptograms of gang graffiti.
Toss in a bunch of porn shops, strip joints, peep shows and adult theaters, and you got yourself Hell's Kitchen.
It wasn’t too bad. We saved up and bought a used stereo, so we could listen to Dr. Hook, Rod Stewart, maybe even a little Bill Joel when we wanted to get mellow. The apartment had even come furnished (though we covered everything with second hand blankets from the Goodwill just in case). Yeah, life was bopping along pretty smooth for a couple of PS-51 dropouts. Smooth, that is, until the morning that Charlie’s screaming woke me up.
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