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Upon his release by the New Orleans Police, Alexander fled the confrontation with his father. But the feeling of relief died young at the hands of the thought that to be free was to be damned. Alone for the first time, our hero felt so small that to distinguish life from death was to split hairs. This would be his last night in the city—one last adventure in the throng.

To dull his pain and oil his tongue for what had happened to Johnny, the boys got him good and drunk and ferried him through the streets. But Alexander’s pall lifted only to let out the occasional despondent little laugh. He passed out at dawn, whereupon the author of his fate, like the Angel of the Lord, appeared before the young man and told him what to do—he would save what he could of the body of his friend.

The entrance to the derelict was covered in police tape but Alexander slipped through and climbed the stairs to the Bird’s Nest. The squat was mostly undisturbed, the stash had not been found. And nestled in the bags of weed, screwed-up bills and fake IDs—the needle he had hidden from the cops. A plume of blood persisted, burgundy through gold, in the dregs of the fatal resin shot.

The footsteps on the stairs sent him flying out of the room and into the next, where he hid behind the rotten door. “We think around half a dozen were living here,” said the Lieutenant, “including your son and the Indian kid.” Nobody noticed Alexander making his descent… In the street, he forced the bad window of his father’s old Ford, climbed into the driver’s seat and fired up the engine the way Johnny had taught him.

By dusk, his drive had eroded all civilization but the road. Here was the desert his friend would eulogise—on the Texas-New Mexico border where the Ford had broken down. In the sky, a diorama of Greek Gods bandied with the legend of the Caddo brothers who turned into stars.

He rolled the car off the road and set it alight with the doomsday kit his father kept in the trunk, then lay on his back—sizing up the firmament, syringe in hand—and took the germ of Johnny’s body into his.

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from Alexander the Great ― Act 3, released November 27, 2015

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Humphrey ‘Huck’ Astley | Singer with The Xander Band, The Handsome Fee, et al | New solo EP coming 2020 ✌️🤞

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