Steel and Gasoline

By Jeremy Cron

In the summer of 1982, Scranton runs on grit, coffee, and whatever you can bolt together. Danny Olszewski-six-four, two-seventy-five, Irish-Polish, hands like a press brake keeps lights on with day jobs in a single bay off Capouse Avenue and quiet cash runs on Keyser and Birney after dark. His partner is a faded '68 Barracuda Notchback: Hemi under the hood, TF-2 in the Torqueflite, scars everywhere. The car asks as much as it gives.

Renee Santoro shows up with grease under her nails, a Duster that leaves hard, and a starter light she built from an old taillight bulb. She likes bars, cars, and the men that fix them-but not anyone who thinks she needs guarding. Their spark is simple- respect first, everything else later.

No Hollywood. No gangsters. Just small pots settled with folded bills and a hand drop, a cop who'd rather not write it up, and a valley that remembers when coal paid the rent. When a hot night on Birney costs Danny more than a race and a Bayonne job offer tugs Renee east, they have to choose: sell the car, chase hero money, or build something square and small that won't lie to them in the morning.

Steel and Gasoline is a rust-belt novella about leaving clean, loving loud, and keeping what keeps you-set where the road is honest and the second filament means go.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FQVBDK3D
• ISBN13: 9798264946998
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"