Chapter 1Guy slipped into the alley, staying in the shadows, searching to be certain he was the only one there. After a moment he moved farther in, coming to a sudden halt when he heard movement a few yards ahead of him, on the far side of a large Dumpster.
Please, please let it be a rat or…or something. He was still recovering physically and emotionally from the beating he’d gotten from his father and didn’t want to become the target of punks who got off on hurting people who lived on the streets. That happened too often these days when so many people took their rage at the pandemic out on those who had fallen between the cracks.
Like me, now, because there’s no way I’m going back home. Next time he’ll kill me. All because he won’t accept I’m not what he wanted in a son.
He was lucky,
