Bastards &Amp; Bastresses: Growing Up Fast, Furious &Amp; Fatherless

By Robert Ricks

Book Overview

J pressed his face against the Plexiglas window of the box where Phyllis was detained. He watched as tears flowed down her chocolate cheeks. He watched with a sense of compassion that he had never felt before. It didn't matter that she was a whore, a real whore, with a pimp. What mattered was that she made J feel, and feelings were something he had long forgotten how to do. He had torn through life like a stray bullet doing major damage wherever he landed. By the time J was sixteen he had spent a third of his life in juvenile facilities and the other two thirds pissed off at his mom and missing the father he never had. So the thick black hoodie he wore in the middle of the summer was not the problem. His glazed-over eyes and generally bad attitude were not the problem. These were J's solutions, along with the 9 MM he carried, the drugs he sold and the ghetto god-like status he'd attained. Phyllis was named after her father, Phyllip Franklin, the nastiest SOB Satan ever spawned. She was said to have the same hazel brown eyes, rich chocolate complexion and his temper. But Phyllis had never laid eyes on the man. Monica's signature appeared on her birth certificate, but the only thing Monica had ever loved or nurtured was her crack stem. So prostitution wasn't Phyllis problem, nor the box cutter she carried in her pocket, nor her insatiable urge to fight. These were her solutions. Hundreds of stitches, five days in a coma, betrayal, and death lead them to think that maybe their solutions had become their problems. But it isn't until J is in jail facing a life sentence on trumped up charges and Phyllis is tied, gagged, and left in a basement to die do they conclude that they have. They want out of the game, but the Deputy Chief of Police, their connect, wants the three quarters of a million dollars that was acquired in blood. What pain and sorrow have brought together in urban matrimony, no man shall tear apart, but they might die trying.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 1607436809
• ISBN13: 9781607436805
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Down In The Dirt Productions & Publications
• Length: 392 Pages