Mean Streets Short Story- Extension English 1

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Squativoo Up in Sing Sing I’m sitting in my room one rainy morning while I’m reading the papers, minding my own business like a guy ought to when in busts this dame squalling and leaking out her peepers, “please Andrew the Op, You’ve gotta help a dame out” she squalls “you can’t let them throw my in the joint, a doll like me can’t survive in there you see”, now this doll is leaking and making a mess all over her face, so I comfort the doll which is my duty as a gentleman and because she wasn’t too bad of a looker anyway so I tell her to shoot the works. She tells me her name's Lisa Perry and she heard about me from the dolls around the Mile High club. She says her guy, Big Bob as they call him, was slugged yesterday night at their joint and she comes home to find him stiff on the bedroom floor with holes in his side, she knew he was a goner from when she saw him so she flew the coup out of fear of being put in it. Turns out Big Bob owed some money to a guy named Billy the Dude, now Billy the Dude is known around town, and anyone who knows Billy the Dude will tell you he’s one guy you don’t wanna get soared up. Billy the Dude runs a group of distributors who supply green and moonshine around town and hang out at their joint near the Mile High club. Everyone knows these guys are not to be tangled with and you’d have to be a rank sucker to find yourself at the Mile High club alone in a pinch with Billy the Dude’s guys. Now dollface tells me about how Billy the Dude once even slugged a sucker named Joel Winchester, or Joel the Righter to those that knew him on account of his solid right uppercut- not so much his writing skills. The story goes like this, Joel the Righter was down at the Mile High club looking for dolls on a Friday night which is the usual for most guys with nothing better to do since all of them are in the line. Anyways, Joey the Righter starts

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