AUTHOR’S NOTE
This book was engendered in part by the poet Nancy Lambert,
who many years ago gave me the idea for a story
updating the mythical ferryman Charon
as a cab driver in Manhattan.
Nancy, I like to think you traded jokes
and smokes and breathtaking lines
with the driver of your own taxi
when it came for you.
—SRB
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
(photo by Ken Mitchroney)
Steven R. Boyett (steveboy.com) is the author of ARIEL, ELEGY BEACH, and other novels, short stories, and feature screenplays. As a DJ he created the groundbreaking and award-winning Podrunner workout music series. He has been a professional martial arts instructor, paper marbler, advertising copywriter, proofreader, writing teacher, website editor, chapbook publisher, and electronic dance music composer. As a DJ he has played clubs and conventions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and at Burning Man. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
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Table of Contents
Epigraph
Prelude in Hell
I. Baby Please Don’t Go
II. Crossroad Blues
III. She’s Gone
IV. Bright Lights, Big City
V. Crosstown Traffic
VI. Subterranean Homesick Blues
VII. Walking the Dog
VIII. Walking After Midnight
IX. Life by the Drop
X. Last Fair Deal Gone Down
XI. Been Down So Long
XIII. Little Wing
XIV. Dazed and Confused
XV. Come on in My Kitchen
XVI. Floating Bridge
XVII. If the River Was Whiskey
XVIII. Midnight Special
XIX. Roadhouse Blues
XX. Hoochie Coochie Man
XXI. Notes on Her Sleeping
XXII. Rambling on My Mind
XXIII. Terraplane Blues
XXIV. Take Me to the River
XXV. Wall of Denial
XXVI. Stones in My Passway
XXVII. Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone
XXVIII. I’m Tore Down
XXIX. Hellhound on My Trail
XXX. Can’t Find My Way Home
XXXI. When Love Comes to Town
XXXII. Running on Faith
XXXIII. Bring It on Home
Acknowledgements
Author’s Note
About the Author