Serial · ongoing
Dirty Boots
A hapless rock musician/biker kid from the ghetto loses his dad and finds his life thereafter only keeps getting more and more complicated.
Chapter 1: EyeHateGod
The buildings along the 101 blurred past, his eyes unable to focus on anything. To Justino, it all may as well have been tumbleweeds in a de…
Chapter 2: Weston Academy
He wished he hadn’t been so numb when deciding on new schools. If he’d been more involved instead of feigning interest, his new mom might no…
Chapter 3: Killer Scene, Kid
School had gone on like that for about two weeks before anything meaningful changed. While traversing the halls to get to some class he coul…
Chapter 4: The Boys are Back In Town
The next few weeks of Justino’s life seemed to go by in a flash. Rather life at school went by in a flash. He was largely uninterested in wh…
Chapter 5: Fatso Forgotso Bout a Guy Named Spittrœst
They lined up at the mouth of a rundown auto shop turned recording studio in Hawaiian gardens to record their first album. The place, former…
Chapter 6: Needle in the Hay
May had some unusual showers that year. Justino sat beside the window, eating a bowl of oatmeal. Maybe there was noise at the front of his d…
Chapter 7: Present Tense
It was supposed to have been a usual Tuesday. A casual exchange. He needed bike parts, a fence on the Fig had them. That was Justino's entir…