The DeLorean tops a hill going at least a hundred and ten, Moe at the wheel. Kenny, Sherry and Joe run from the rig. Moe applies the brakes and screeches fifty yards before crashing into and under the rig and burning alive in a fireball.
In the crowded Bones Jangle. The skeleton dances and the lounge lizard, in a silk pongee suit, knocks back a black, syrupy drink. When the skeleton stops dancing all attention turns to the stage.
Sultry music welcomes Moe into the stage lights in a tight silk jumpsuit. He begins a striptease, but a few minutes into the act, the lounge lizard leaps up, charges toward the stage, pulls a.38 snubby and shoots Moe in the stomach.
Moe falls, mortally wounded.
We fade to black.
About the Author
David Ohle’s novel, Motorman, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1972 and rereleased by 3rd Bed Press in 2004 with an introduction by Ben Marcus. Its sequel, The Age of Sinatra, was published by Soft Skull in 2004, followed in 2008 by The Pisstown Chaos. In 2009, two novellas, Boons and The Camp were published by Calamari Press under one cover. He has edited two nonfiction books, Cows are Freaky When They Look at You: An Oral History of the Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers (Watermark Press, 1991) and Cursed From Birth: the Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs, Jr. (Soft Skull, 2006). His short fiction has appeared in Harper’s, Esquire, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, The Missouri Review, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and elsewhere. He has taught fiction writing at the University of Texas in Austin, the University of Missouri in Columbia, and currently both fiction and screenwriting at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.