Bitter Medicine (1987)
“No breakfast there unless you were a rat or a cockroach and not too picky in your habits. I locked the back door and went over to the Belmont Diner. So what if I’d had fried potatoes for supper last night? I ate blueberry pancakes, a double order of bacon, lots of butter and syrup, and coffee. After all, once you’re dead, you’ve got all eternity in front of you to diet in.
Fabiano Hernandez shot. Like Stewart Alsop said, he should have died herebefore. It was too late now to do anyone any good.... I read about it in the Herald-Star, but they didn’t give it much play—a little paragraph in “ChicagoBeat,” not even the front page of the section. At least one teenager gets killed every day in Chicago and Fabiano hadn’t been a basketball star or a prize scholar for whom tear-jerking copy could be written.
Between the last of the pancakes and my third cup of coffee I figured out an approach for Friendship. It wasn’t exactly a work of genius, but I hoped it might do. I paid my bill and returned home.MoreLess
Fabiano Hernandez shot. Like Stewart Alsop said, he should have died herebefore. It was too late now to do anyone any good.... I read about it in the Herald-Star, but they didn’t give it much play—a little paragraph in “ChicagoBeat,” not even the front page of the section. At least one teenager gets killed every day in Chicago and Fabiano hadn’t been a basketball star or a prize scholar for whom tear-jerking copy could be written.
Between the last of the pancakes and my third cup of coffee I figured out an approach for Friendship. It wasn’t exactly a work of genius, but I hoped it might do. I paid my bill and returned home.MoreLess
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