A Hobo's Guide to Last Chance
Fifteen Tales of Scandal, Vagabonds & Dust
Many of the world's famous literary fiction characters populate magical, make-believe municipalities: Brigadoon, Lorna Doone, Shangri-La, Gotham City, Metropolis, Las Vegas, and now, Last Chance. The town-hamlet-village of Last Chance can't be found on any road sign or map, but is no less real than any other made up destination.
Last Chance's citizens are partial to plain speech, although a few standouts tend to be freewheeling or puffy in their circumlocution. The local government is hopelessly yet lovably corrupt; babies are born with a plastic spoon in their mouth; folks mostly don't know whether they're coming or going (because they never drag their boots off the porch); butter is preferred by a ten to one margin over margarine except to grease truck wheel bearings.
Last Chance is a friendly place and intends to stay that way, which is what the local constabulary explains to hobos, drifters, grifters, vagabonds, and other transients while escorting them to the outskirts.
Current Last Chance stories:
In Politics You Create a List of Pros and Cons | Riggwelter [Page 47]
Our One-Thumbed Whittler | The Cabinet of Heed
Baby and Bucky | The Cabinet of Heed
The Post Office Delivers a Shock | The Cabinet of Heed
In Which a Tinker Courts Constable Arlene | The Cabinet of Heed
It Takes a Hobo | The Cabinet of Heed
Constable Arlene Runs | The Cabinet of Heed
Coming soon:
This Barrel of Orphans
A Single Slice is Never Enough
Unbearable
How Lowell Nelson Became Fuzzy
She Fries Chicken in the Dark
All Politics is Local
Ruby Pauline Diamond's Recipe for Disaster
An Epilogue's Prologue