The Dunning Of Harley Nesbit
EXCERPT
What would it be like to wake up one morning under a bridge and not be able to remember who you are, how you got there, and only snippets of your past? This is Harley’s predicament and it’s a mystery he seems incapable of solving on his own…This is where an impish street maven comes in. His name is Dusty, and he’s all too familiar with the besotted Harley, who’s as put off and perplexed as he is intrigued by this queer little man…Things soon change, however, and somehow between the two of them they manage to unravel Harley’s past in a most unorthodox way…Brace yourself, because this is going to be one lurid journey that will shock your socks off! And it all comes to a completely unexpected end!...Be warned: THIS IS MATURE READING, but if you enjoy a compelling mystery and you have a strong stomach, then proceed at your own risk!
CHAPTER ONE
Presently he attempts to crash the main gate of another hotel where his egress, though more courteous, is just as swift and fixed. Once again: access denied. This seems to be his general case, which begs the question: How came he whence? What shot the constellation of his once felicitous circumstance out of the sky? What subversion befell him that he now trudges through the streets, wretched and besotted, in the riggings of a former life which, still faintly visible in his comportment he could, nevertheless, be presumed to have savored some measure of prosperity and social standing? What makes despair and peevishness his most redeeming qualities at best? Though most assuredly no member of the Chapel Royal or the grand monde, this was his circumstance. It appears non sequitur. Alas, he cannot tell; he doesn’t know himself. He has drunk deep from the River Lethe; deeper still from the bottle, and there are wide gulfs in his long memory, wide rifts of nothingness, which are only now beginning to repair themselves through desultory recollections and foggy, disjointed dreams…
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