Johnny Holiday Blog

• Franky Lyons – A Lake Street Pimp September 29, 2020
  Franky sat a small round table with two of his fellow operators. The rain had forced them all inside but they kept watch over the girls who were out in the weather getting soaked. The three of them had been sitting together for a few hours, sipping brandy and comparing notes on the ups and […]
• Kenny Babineau, Store Clerk September 22, 2020
  Kenny Babineau kept watch over the darkened store. He stood at the entrance beneath the rain-soaked awning with a baseball bat by his side. He had taken swift action as soon as the power went out, after the thunder strike shook the building and turned his knees to jelly. He put the cash from the […]
• Larry Miller’s News Stand September 1, 2020
  Rain hammered the city, and Larry Miller’s newsstand took the worst of it. The drains filled then the gutters, and the overflow flooded the sidewalk as Larry did what he could to keep his goods dry. As soon as the silver dollar size drops began to fall the old newsy pulled everything off the sidewalk, […]
• Rebecca Mordecai August 24, 2020
  Rebecca reached into the porcelain bowl the table where her clients left her fee. She had not given the proper reading to the young man who had just left her corner of the bookstore, but he had asked enough questions and taken a sufficient amount of her time to charge him. They had not discussed […]
• Ingrid Magnsson August 17, 2020
  Ingrid Magnusson left Saint Anthony right after she had her breakfast. It was a four hour drive to the town of Avon, North and west of the city. She arrived around 1:00 pm, but her twin sister Helga who had called her that morning to demand that Ingrid come see her, wasn’t there. Ian Green, […]
• Angela Guthrie August 10, 2020
  Angela Guthrie was upset, worse than that she was terrified. She had come to work at the bookstore like any other day only to find that her employer, Ingrid Magnusson was not there and she could not get into the store. She waited outside. It was hot and the air was thick with humidity, she […]