Billiards On Broadway
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I wasn’t feeling or looking nearly my best when she burst into the office. She had her usual ubiquitous cheery smile. She walked straight past me and did what I knew she was going to do... and there was no way I could stop her. Mike reached for the window shade as I reached for my ears. I was too late again.
“Wake up,” she chirped. “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood,” doing her bad imitation of Mr. Rogers-- and let fly with the window shade. It ran up the wall crackling all the way up. When it got to the top it made that obnoxious flapping sound as it rotated for what seemed like four hours. And all the while Mike stood there with that cute little grin savoring every second of my agony. I hid my eyes in my arm as the sun came glaringly through the window.
“Why do you get so much pleasure doing that to me?” I groaned. “And don’t do that, either!”
“Do what?” She answered with that look of surprise trying to fake me out.
“Don’t grin so darn loud,” I moaned while covering my ears.
“My, my, don’t we feel chipper this morning. I see you spent the weekend with the Daniels boys again, Charlie and Jack!” She turned off the stereo and replaced the LP in its jacket. Then she said “SURPRISE” as she held the empty bottle five feet above the wastebasket and let it drop. Just my luck, the one time in four weeks the wastebasket was empty. There was nothing there to cushion the fall. The sound pounded inside my skull like a jackhammer. I couldn’t see her but I could tell Mike was enjoying the unpleasant sensations, which were occurring to me in various degrees commonly, referred to as pain.
“I hope you don’t mind me being honest Mr. Shadow, but... you look terrible.”
“Thanks!” I moaned. “You sure know how to begin a pleasant week. It is Monday, isn’t it?”
“In fact,” she continued, ignoring my question, albeit rhetorical, “-- you look like you’ve been shot at and missed... and shingled at and hit.”
“Hey, wash your mouth out, girl,” I said very boss like. “I ain’t paying you for those kind of insults.” It wasn’t even
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About the Book
‘Billiards on Broadway’ is
centered around Broadway Benny's
The Boomerang Bloke phoned in
from
Our lead character is Grey
Shadow, a small time PI who calls his one-man operation The Night Owl Detective
Agency. He barely survives from small cases to smaller cases. Because of the
large amount of money that will be at Broadway Benny’s a mysterious donor has hired
Grey Shadow to provide security until the tournament is over. But it goes
beyond that.
About the Author
Jay began playing pool leagues
1984. That’s when he began gathering material and recording events that are
used in his stories. Many behind the scene accounts of players connected with
the billiard world have been mentioned throughout ‘Billiards on Broadway’.
Stories covering tournaments and features of local celebrities appeared in
‘Ball in Hand’, a publication that focused on local talent.
Jay has been covering
Jay resides in