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Bartender
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The honky-tonk bartender, who doubled as bouncer, waiter, and cashier, was in no mood to compromise. Mercy was not in him. He came out around the open end of the long counter, waddled threatening across the floor in a sullen, red-faced fury and began to shake the inanimate figure lying across the table with its head bedded on its arms. "Hey, you! Do your sleeping in the gutter!"
If you gave these bums an inch; they took a yard. And this one was a particularly glaring example of the genus bar-f
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― The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
― The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
“
Hi, Lloyd, a little slow tonight isn't it?'
Lloyd said it was. Lloyd asked him what would it be.
'Now I'm really glad you asked me that, really glad. Because I happen to have two twenties and two tens in my wallet and I was afraid they'd be sitting right there until sometime next April. There isn't a 7-Eleven around here, would you believe it? And I thought they had 7-Elevens on the fucking moon.'
Lloyd sympathized.
'So here's what, you set me up an even twenty martinis...One for every month
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― The Shining
― The Shining
If it happened in a bar I want to hear about it.
Sex? Fights? Drugs? Tell me!
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