Crashing Out in the Alphabets
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Kevin waltzes with an air of intensity in his steps across Avenue C, tired from the Mad Bar scene. Wearing tattered business attire with long hair hanging. His head turns to the sizzle of the steam pouring out of the subway grates. There is a nip in the night air and it bothers him. He grabs the stolen glass of Old Times whiskey from his coat pocket, devouring the last drop. Drinking it aimlessly through the darkened streets of the Lower East Side. A vulgar-looking crack whore approaches raw and ready. A Sunset Strip girl, all dolled up with the heroin look, mascara smeared down. Kevin runs into her. "What are you doing here?" "I’m here for ya honey. My name is Lucy. Miss Brown is what they call me. I need a fix. I’ll kiss your pain for a fix." Before he can get a word in, she is going down on him like an untamed bird-woman. They are in a state of Sin. She pushes him up against the brick wall in the alley...he throws her on top of a garbage can--has her right there...he is f**king her. You can hear the moans and the slight noise of street traffic in the background. This was no children’s show. The next day at his place, they’re in bed. They awaken to the taste of shit in their mouths from last night’s activities. Kevin says to Lucy, "Let’s have a drink, OK?" She says, "You drink?" "No, I don’t drink. I get drunk." They both get out of bed and go to the bathroom. Now in the shower, naked and raw. Pleasing each other. He takes his c**k and jams it in-- she makes sounds-- she has f**ked him dry. He gives her a shirt and sketches her face into his pad. "Bye," he says. "I have to go." "O.K. I will be here waiting for you." He leaves her astray at his rat hole place. Trying to catch the last R Train express, he thinks of her robbing the place.
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New York City animator Kevin Nelson likes to drink cheap booze, have sex, and wander the seedy streets of the East Village. He also likes power. It's the latter that eventually brings him down... Crashing out in the Alphabets opens with a glimpse of life in New York through Kevin's increasingly sick eyes. He meets Lucy Brown, a crack whore; their bond is booze, drugs, and vicious sex. When she dies of a cocaine overdose, Kevin is crushed. Lucy's death sends Kevin into a tailspin. He walks the streets with her ashes in a plastic baggie, he tries to fish in the filthy East River, he does a stint in the drunk tank. Through it all, though, he manages to keep his standards high at Cartoon City, the animation company where he works. But slowly he tires of his bosses and their control. He wants to rule the show at Cartoon City, he wants to make his own short film, and he wants nothing to stand in his way. Booze-addled, he begins killing his way to the top. His first boss takes a bullet in the head during an afternoon jog. The replacement is done in by horse tranquilizers in her coffee. Kevin is reaching his goals, but his mind is fraying. And just when he needs what's left of his sanity to pull off his murderous jag, two new characters enter his life: Sarah, a red-headed beauty he thinks is his salvation, and Bill, a co-worker with reasons to bring Kevin down. With both in tow and a 40 oz. of malt liquor in hand, Kevin careens toward his destruction...
About the Author
At the tender age of 28, Garrett Diamond has already experimented -- for good or ill -- with a vast array of artistic endeavors, including painting, sculpture, writing, and music. His work, he says, "portrays the maddening things that one sees during the beginnings of life." His music "depicts both the outcast’s view of life and the dark cascade of truth." His writing unmasks the soul within us all. His artwork has had showings at the CVS Cultural Center, the Elizabeth, N.J. Public Library, The Tunnel, and Tompkins Square Art Around The Park. He has given musical performances at Border’s Books and Music, Cafe Della Pace and CSV Cultural Center and has appeared on Queens Cable Public Access. Diamond has had readings at CSV Cultural Center, Bar 13, and Barnes & Nobles Bookstore. His writings and reproductions of his artwork have appeared in Mudfish, Number Foundation Magazine, Rutgers University Review, 12th Planet, Writers Choice, Story Mania and the NY Hangover, Authors den. Diamond lives in Astoria, Queens. When not selling TV’s or scribbling on napkins, he can be found drinking Kamikazes in any bar that will serve him.