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Tales!
Today we have a snippet
from The Good Green Earth, Colors of Love
#3.
Our word prompt today is “Potshot”
and in this excerpt we drop into a conversation between Nate Zinkan, the wild boy
of the AHL who has been recently arrested for another DUI, and his agent, Arn
Toras. This dialog takes place after Nate has been sentenced.
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“Okay,
then you have to stop being such a wild man. The drinking, the parties, the
clubs, the attitude, the sexual antics, the drunken driving. It has to stop.
Nate, look at me.” I forced myself to glance at Arn. He was a handsome dude for
someone in their forties. Lean, smart, always well-dressed, and nice. Nicer
than my older brother was that the hell was for sure. “Do you understand that
you could have killed someone while driving under the influence?”
“I
was barely over the legal limit,” I quickly fired back. Fuck. One stupid joy
ride with the championship trophy in my new convertible Mustang and this mess was
the result.
“That’s
not the point. One beer can cloud a person’s judgement. What if you had plowed
into a family instead of a tool shed out in Cazenovia. What if someone had been
inside that shed looking for a weed eater?”
I
nibbled on the inside of my cheek. “I know. I just…we were celebrating.”
“I
know, kid, I know, but every decision we make has consequences. You skipping
college to jump into the game, leaving Ohio, picking me to represent you, all
good decisions.” I snorted. He went right on talking like a father or
something. “You have the goods to make it in the pros, but you keep shooting
yourself in the foot. Professional hockey teams do not want troublemakers. And you’re one more fuck up away from being
branded troublesome and then you know where you’ll be playing? Not in Manhattan
that’s for sure. This organization will trade your ass to the first team or
league that expresses an interest, and that won’t be many. But maybe you want
to play for some shitty little team in the outer reaches of Bungholia?”
“No,
I want to play on Broadway,” I said with conviction, my gaze moving over the
people of Syracuse enjoying an early summer day as if my life wasn’t imploding
like a house of cards.
“Then
use this summer to get your act together. Work hard, stop being an ass, and
when training season comes make sure you show up in shape, ready to play, and
without that hoodlum attitude you’re so famous for.”
“Hoodlum,”
I repeated then chuckled. “Dude, you are hideously old.”
“Yeah
well, I might be outdated but I’m not spending my summer picking potato bugs off
plants.” He slapped my thigh and pushed to his feet. “You want a ride home?”
“Uhm,
yeah, I guess I’ll need a lift since I don’t have my license anymore.”
“Really
sucks to be you right now,” he said then ambled off whistling, his briefcase
swinging back and forth. That was a pretty righteous potshot. God, what a merry asshole Arn Toras could be. And what a
shit day this had been. And I suspected come tomorrow at nine in the morning,
things were going to get a whole lot worse.
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©by V.L. Locey
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3 comments:
Can't wait !
Great scene and a good reminder of the dangers of DUI. Well done.
I love Arn’s butt chewing. He made some great points. And I’m dying to know what happens st 9:00. Great job!
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