Horse Races and Paint Stores
The anti-biography of Duffy O’Day
P. Manvel Kennedy
Several months after finding evidence that 80-year-old Duffy had been mugged and is missing, and per his will and the money he left for it, many of Duffy’s friends and enemies from Seattle’s Market and around the country gather for a wake and/or a celebration at a Pacific Ocean beach. They are not certain if he is actually dead or just playing one of his cantankerous old-man tricks. Some hope he is dead, and others expect him to walk down the beach and have a beer, laughing at the big joke on all.
Detective Murray attends to catch a killer, if one exists. Deloris, Duffy’s girlfriend from the long past is there and is getting close to the detective. Dodger, Duffy’s friend since boyhood and now his polar opposite, as well as a prime suspect, has escaped a mental institution and is lingering in the area causing problems. Many of the attending artists and hustlers and youth have stories about the mouthy, very opinionated Duffy who has traveled and experienced the world.
The anti-biography of Duffy O’Day
P. Manvel Kennedy
Several months after finding evidence that 80-year-old Duffy had been mugged and is missing, and per his will and the money he left for it, many of Duffy’s friends and enemies from Seattle’s Market and around the country gather for a wake and/or a celebration at a Pacific Ocean beach. They are not certain if he is actually dead or just playing one of his cantankerous old-man tricks. Some hope he is dead, and others expect him to walk down the beach and have a beer, laughing at the big joke on all.
Detective Murray attends to catch a killer, if one exists. Deloris, Duffy’s girlfriend from the long past is there and is getting close to the detective. Dodger, Duffy’s friend since boyhood and now his polar opposite, as well as a prime suspect, has escaped a mental institution and is lingering in the area causing problems. Many of the attending artists and hustlers and youth have stories about the mouthy, very opinionated Duffy who has traveled and experienced the world.
