Chapter 13: Stranger, Unconscious
Downtown
Sponge Dock Way
Briefs Bar
August 3, 20—
11:01 P.M.
What I didn’t want to witness inside the back room at the Briefs Bar: Boxer being rammed by two Daddies at the same time, torturing him; the blond bleeding from his asshole because he was raped by either Coffler or a different brute inside the bar; the guy mangled and butchered to death by a razor sharp knife, having his neck sliced open by some prejudiced bigot that worked along the Gulf; Boxer fully naked and pinned to one of the walls in a pair of handcuffs and being whipped by two hooded black men with bodies similar to Coffler’s.
What I witnessed inside that reddish-illuminated dark room was the sound of a local band called Mush. Their hit, “Bad Boy in Blue,” blared down from the ceil
