Out of Time (Ped Xing)

I've justed posted the third in my four-part short story collection, Twilight of the Idle, over at Shortcovers. I wrote these short stories while at university, and not surprisingly, they're loosely based on my friends. There's a certain element of angst to them, but what makes them interesting to me now, over ten years later, is how they capture a certain slice of Calgary youth on the eve of the economic boom.

In this story, Out of Time (Ped Xing), the two main characters go and hang out in a suburban flophouse run by Frank, a delivery courier without peer.