The Kings Of Cool

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Kim pauses in the lobby outside the fund-raiser cocktail party and experiences

A moment of self-doubt.

The women are so elegant, so beautifully turned out, so confident in their wealth and elegance. The men are so casual and handsome, so well dressed. Their laughter comes out of the room like a challenge to her, saying You don’t belong here

Trailer-park trash

Waitress

Your mother cleans our houses and

You lived in a cave.

She stops and stands there.

Thinks, as she did at the border check, of simply turning around and going home to the trailer, where she belongs.

It’s her eighteenth birthday.

Stan gets a gun.

Freudian, sure, but there it is.

Finding a gun in Dodge City is like finding sand on the beach. All he does is walk over to John’s house and let himself in.

The pistol is under John’s bed.

Don Winslow

The Kings Of Cool