Winner Take Nothing
Chapter One
After the Storm
It wasn't about anything, something about making punch, and then we started
fighting and I slipped and he had me down kneeling on my chest and choking me
with both hands like he was trying to kill me and all the time I was trying to
get the knife out of my pocket to cut him loose. Everybody was too drunk to
pull him off me. He was choking me and hammering my head on the floor and I got
the knife out and opened it up; and I cut the muscle right across his arm and
he let go of me. He couldn't have held on if he wanted to. Then he rolled and
hung onto that arm and started to cry and I said:
"What the hell you want to choke me for?"
I'd have killed him. I couldn't swallow for a week. He hurt my throat bad.
Well, I went out of there and there were plenty of them with him and some came
out after me and I made a turn and was down by the docks and I met a fellow and
he said somebody killed a man up the street. I said "Who killed him?" and he
said "I don't know who killed him but he's dead all right," and it was dark and
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