Nineteen-year-old Jamar Jansen is no stranger to guns and violence. And because he’s a little slow mentally, he’s also no stranger to being teased and bullied. It’s not something he ever really focused on though, not until his older brother, Darnell, ended up shooting one of Jamar’s worst tormentors.
Now, without his brother to protect him and a mother who blames him for Darnell being in jail (“He was protecting you.”), Jamar is adrift in a neighborhood full of predators, some of whom wear the sheep’s clothing of friends. Walking home from McDonald’s one evening Jamar runs into some of those so-called friends, who promise to take him to a popular club if he’ll just do them a quick favor first.
Jamar’s smart enough to know something’s not right when they ask him to wait outside while they go into a check-cashing store – and to signal them by pulling up his hoodie if he sees someone coming – but unfortunately he’s not smart enough to avoid either getting caught up in the outburst of violence that ensues or subsequently being picked up by the police as their chief suspect. (more…)
Delaney MacKay is used to a little weirdness; it kinda comes with the territory when you’re raised by a father who happens to be a professional wrestler. All her life Delaney grew up surrounded by Malcolm ‘The Highlander’ MacKay’s friends, people with names like The Sledgehammer, Dangerous Dan, and Calvin the Cyclone.
‘Oooooarrrrghhh!!!! Jesus, Mary and fucking Joseph!’
