SHOOt me.
there was a desert wind blowing that night. it was one of those hot dry santa anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. on nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. anything can happen. you can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.
hi! ♡ my name is anna, but feel free to call me "sun" if it's easier to remember because of my display name! i'm fourteen years old and the very definition of a wannabe writer. currently, i live in california, usa with my family and two cats. i speak passable vietnamese and english as my primary languages, but i prefer to write in english (as it's what i'm more fluent in.) i have very few hobbies - just drawing (very, very badly), writing, reading, and listening to music.
I was getting one in a flossy new place across the street from the apartment house where I lived. It had been open about a week and it wasn't doing any business. The kid behind the bar was in his early twenties and looked as if he had never had a drink in his life.
There was only one other customer, a souse on a bar stool with his back to the door. He had a pile of dimes stacked neatly in front of him, about two dollars' worth. He was drinking straight rye in small glasses and he was all by himself in a world of his own.
I sat farther along the bar and got my glass of beer and said: "You sure cut the clouds off them, buddy. I will say that for you."
my ult groups are day6 and and seventeen. my semi-ults are stray kids and the boyz. i stan groups pentagon, the rose, twice, fromis_9, gfriend, shinhwa, big bang, super junior, shinee, weki meki, gugudan, exid, pristin, unb, uni.t, and more. for cpop, i ult nine percent and semi-ult oner, awaken-f, mr-x, and yhnext. my ult in cpop is sơn tùng m-tp. i am getting into: up10tion, 24k, nct, knk, and n.flying.
"We just opened up," the kid said. "We got to build up trade. Been in before, haven't you, mister?"
"Uh-huh."
"Live around here?"
"In the Berglund Apartments across the street," I said. "And the name is Philip Marlowe."
"Thanks, mister. Mine's lew Petrolle." He leaned close to me across the polished dark bar. "Know that guy?"
"No."
"He ought to go home, kind of. I ought to call a
taxi and send him home. He's doing his next week's drinking too soon."
"A night like this," I said. "Let him alone."
"It's not good for him," the kid said, scowling at me.
"Rye!" the drunk croaked, without looking up. He snapped his fingers so as not to disturb his piles of dimes by banging on the bar.
The kid looked at me and shrugged. "Should I?"
"Whose stomach is it? Not mine."
my ults in kpop are: park jaehyung, kang younghyun, and lee chan. my cpop ults are zhu xingjie and wang ziyi. my vpop ult is nguyễn thanh tùng.
my other favorite members of groups are: han mubo, yue yue, luo zheng, jung eunwoo, moon bin, yan an, shin hoseok, jung eunbi, ahn jiyoung, lee suhyun, lee saerom, lee jieun, kwon hyuk, kang seulgi, kim taehyung, yang jeongin, kang daniel, woosung, kim doyeon, & moon jongup.
The kid poured him another straight rye and I think he doctored it with water down behind the bar because when he came up with it he looked as guilty as if he'd kicked his grandmother. The drunk paid no attention. He lifted coins off his pile with the exact care of a crack surgeon operating on a brain tumor.
The kid came back and put more beer in my glass. Outside the wind howled. Every once in a while it blew the stainedglass door open a few inches. It was a heavy door.
my favorite songs of the moment are any of day6's songs (i recommend i need somebody, hunt, hi hello, and shoot me in particular), sejeong's "flower road", dean's "21", iu's "pierrot smiles at us", "jam jam", "50cm", and "dlwlrma", astro's "baby", pledis girlz' "roller coaster", fromis_9's "dkdk", seventeen's "we gonna make it shine" and "aju nice", kream's "talking to the moon", heize's "jenga", and zion.t's "snow".
The kid said: "I don't like drunks in the first place and in the second place I don't like them getting drunk in here, and in the third place I don't like them in the first place."
"Warner Brothers could use that," I said.
"They did."
Just then we had another customer. A car squeaked to a stop outside and the swinging door came open. A fellow came in who looked a little in a hurry. He held the door and ranged the place quickly with flat, shiny, dark eyes.
i started writing fics on april 20, 2018, originating from forum rp mostly on hosts proboards and jcink. the fandoms i want to write for - or at least plan to write for - are primarily nine percent, idol producer, day6, wanna one, stray kids, the boyz, triple h, big bang, and nct. i write using google docs and post on ao3. my favorite genres of writing are primarily supernatural, fantasy, and slice-of-life, despite my dislike of writing out worldbuilding information.
He was well set up, dark, good-looking in a narrow-faced, tight-lipped way. His clothes were dark and a white handkerchief peeped coyly from his pocket and he looked cool as well as under a tension of some sort. I guessed it was the hot wind. I felt a bit the same myself only not cool.
He looked at the drunk's back. The drunk was playing checkers with his empty glasses. The new customer looked at me, then he looked along the line of half-booths at the other side of the place. They were all empty. He came on in-down past where the drunk sat swaying and muttering to himself-and spoke to the bar kid.
| wip works. | genre//au | group | wc |
|---|---|---|---|
| for all you left behind | university / n-f au | tbz | n/a |
| felix felicis | hp au | skz | n/a |
| cast avifors (on my heart) | hp au | w1 | n/a |
| remembrall | hp + heist | skz | n/a |
| as you walk by | n-f au | w1 | n/a |
| shoot me | spies au | day6 | n/a |
| recall and reclamation | overwatch recall au | exo | n/a |
| fahrenheit 365 | f 451 au | 3h | n/a |
| the witching hour | witch au | svt | n/a |
| cardboard kings | fantasy royal au | multi | n/a |
"Seen a lady in here, buddy? Tall, pretty, brown hair, in a print bolero jacket over a blue crêpe silk dress. Wearing a widebrimmed straw hat with a velvet band." He had a tight voice I didn't like.
"No, sir. Nobody like that's been in," the bar kid said.
"Thanks. Straight Scotch. Make it fast, will you?"
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The kid gave it to him and the fellow paid and put the drink down in a gulp and started to go out. He took three or four steps and stopped, facing the drunk. The drunk was grinning.
He swept a gun from somewhere so fast that it was just a blur coming out. He held it steady and he didn't look any drunker than I was. The tall dark guy stood quite still and then his head jerked back a little and then he was still again.
A car tore by outside. The drunk's gun was a .22 target automatic, with a large front sight. It made a couple of hard snaps and a little smoke curled-very little.
the text continuously found throughout the carrd is from raymond chandler's "red wind". the music is from a playlist called "acid jazz" by lordafj on soundcloud. the lyrics and design are inspired by the title track of day6's beautiful new release, shoot me, which i strongly recommend.
