Sweeter Life
“He had tucked the boy into bed, gone to check on the rest of the crew and come tiptoeing back to the room just as the sun was beginning to paint the sky pink. But as exhausted as he felt, he still couldn’t close his eyes. It saddened him to see the boy sleeping there so fitfully. The twisted sheets and the grinding teeth reminded Ronnie of another hotel room in another town, and the night he met Jimmy Waters, one of the world’s anxious sleepers.
Back then, Ronnie had anxieties of his own. He ha...d walked out on the Aaron Maxx tour in Staghorn, Alberta, and was renting a room in the Queen’s Hotel, a room that smelled of smoke and stale beer, and throbbed all night with the red glow of neon. He was also running desperately low on cash and wondering what to do with the rest of his life now that he had more or less tossed his career down the dumper. Then one morning he flipped on the black-and-white television bolted to the wall and, there amid the snow and flickers, he saw Dick Clark: the sharp suit, the slicked-back hair, the youthful good looks.MoreLess
Back then, Ronnie had anxieties of his own. He ha...d walked out on the Aaron Maxx tour in Staghorn, Alberta, and was renting a room in the Queen’s Hotel, a room that smelled of smoke and stale beer, and throbbed all night with the red glow of neon. He was also running desperately low on cash and wondering what to do with the rest of his life now that he had more or less tossed his career down the dumper. Then one morning he flipped on the black-and-white television bolted to the wall and, there amid the snow and flickers, he saw Dick Clark: the sharp suit, the slicked-back hair, the youthful good looks.MoreLess
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