Author: Josh Fireland
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The Unforgiving Glare
I spent New Year’s Eve, unfortunately, inevitably, at The Embers, where they had a special deal going: buy six drinks and the seventh gets thrown in your face for free. I awoke the next morning on the floor of my room at the Ballast Hotel, my mouth tasting like the ruins of a burned-down zoo.…
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The Hook Gets The Lash
I mean I guess the big news in Fort Hook this week was the Mayor* giving a press conference where she admitted/bragged that she has a different wife in each district (there are fifteen) and how that was her way of “celebrating the entire city.” But I feel like we kind of already knew that?…
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Greetings from Fort Hook
Escape the ordinary (and the authorities) in this beautifully perilous port town. Are you perhaps a contract privateer, or an unlicensed angler, or a grubby stowaway needing to lay low til the heat dies down? Are you looking to trade ill-gotten contraband? Or dredge up unsavory work? Or just raise sundry types of hell? Then…