Petrolandia – Lotto Players

Petrolandia – Lotto Players

During my first few shifts, Sandor would sometimes do things and explain their need as time went on. One of those things was waiting until five fifty-eight and then printing lottery information. Every day – every single day for four years – two men would 

Petrolandia – The Common Runner

Petrolandia – The Common Runner

Warning: this is not a marathon anyone should be running.

Petrolandia – Crazy Jones

Petrolandia – Crazy Jones

The man that broke the truth about chemtrails would regularly hide in our freezer.

Petrolandia – The Arab

Petrolandia – The Arab

It wasn’t always a horror show. It’s important to know that.

Petrolandia – The First Robbery

Petrolandia – The First Robbery

Wherein I meet a thief who did not fully consider his plan.

Petrolandia – Eli the Prophet

Petrolandia – Eli the Prophet

Sandor introduces me to someone I never thought I’d see again.

Petrolandia – A Mighty Combination

Petrolandia – A Mighty Combination

“I am on a mighty combination of heroin and speed,” the kid said, licking his lips as an older guy walked in past him and made a beeline for the coffee. “And I need Prime Time.” Prime Time was a cheap brand of flavored cigarillos 

Petrolandia – The Job Description

Petrolandia – The Job Description

I’d been writing freelance for film and television before the crash. It was a gray market job, the sort of thing that anyone with a lick of sense would have avoided, but I was young and foolish then, not like the old and foolish person 

Petrolandia – A Man and His Son

Petrolandia – A Man and His Son

It was one thirty in the morning when they came in. It’d been a quiet night and I’d fallen into the lull, letting my guard down after too many hours where nothing had happened. I glanced up from my laptop as they entered – the