Vipers, Nights, and French Fries
**Chapter 1** * * * Wisps of vapor flowed out of my nose with every breath as I walked down the sidewalk. Looking more at the ground than what was ahead of me, I noticed there were lots of cracks in the sidewalk and sections where grass had grown in...
Vipers, Nights, and French Fries (Ch4)
**Chapter 4** When I woke up my hand hadn't completely healed yet. After I called in to work, I spent most of the early afternoon kicking myself for not saying something to Tay yesterday. I didn't have much experience expressing gratitude, not like...
Advent Provides (Ch 1)
**Opening Monologue** Life's never been all that good to me, but Advent, Advent has been real good to me. Advent has been good for many people. Thanks to them there's no poverty, no homelessness, and no unemployment, in the cities anyway, but that...
Vipers, Nights, and French Fries (Ch3)
**Chapter 3** "I still can't believe you're going through with this," Josh said, a touch of concern in his voice. "Not like I can change my mind now, especially after I got a week off to adjust," I responded. "What did you even do all week?" He...
Vipers, Nights, and French Fries (Ch6)
##### Chapter 6 * * * I took a deep breath. _One more shift, one more shift and then it's the fucking weekend. I can do this, I can get through this. Whatever she's got planned for today, I can handle it._ The scent of grease and cooked...
Vipers, Nights, and French Fries (Ch2)
**Chapter 2** "I'll take two number 6's, one with no pickles. And, can you add extra pickle and McDougall sauce to the other one?" This guy looked like he had gotten black out drunk the night before and rolled out of bed to walk in here and get...
Vipers, Nights, and French Fries (Ch5)
##### Chapter 5 I got up the next morning and jumped out of bed easier than I had in the last two months. Today, I was filled with purpose. My mission was to get I.A. Day off by _any _means necessary. There was no level I would...
Vipers, Nights, and French Fries (Ch9)
**Chapter 9** * * * Normally when I started my day, it felt like I had lead weights attached to my legs, but today something was different. I felt electrified. When I flew out of bed my body protested, aches and bruises reminding me of...
Advent Provides (Ch 15)
**Chapter 15** I saw so much. My brother with the gun, Ron, my old friends, my family. Everyone I had ever known flash before my eyes, and I saw her. 11-7, she was there, smiling, - as well as she could. She never could smile like a human, it was more...
Vipers, Nights, and French Fries (Ch7)
**Chapter 7** * * * Mark was working one of the registers and waved at me as I walked into McDougall's. "Hey Vincent, you're early today?" I shrugged. "Five minutes isn't all that early, I just wanted some _ffffffff_-" I held off on saying...
Advent Provides (Epilogue)
**Epilogue** It had been a couple weeks since my stunt during my Advent apology speech, and things were going about as well as I expected. I had effectively gotten myself out of work for at least a month, as Advent scrambled to deal with the fallout...
Advent Provides (Ch 14)
**Chapter 14** I woke up, not because of my alarm, I just did. I looked for 11-7, but the lack of her presence and the familiar walls of my room reminded me I slept alone last night. My eyelids felt heavy, I hadn't slept well last night. Not because I...