i'm a sucker for film noir and pulp fiction.  i occasionally dream in high contrast black and white with a whisky-voiced narrator.  one of my rp characters, marlowe, was supposed to be more film-noir than he ended up being but that's alright.  i love him anyway.

months ago, i mentioned the title of an unwritten pulp fiction novel offhand.  kiss like a bullet.  my friend flipped out and demanded that i write it immediately.  i didn't.  in fact, i didn't even start writing it until quite recently.  it's a spur of the moment thing, likely to be written in spurts and then completely rewritten and reformed, but what's a writing journal for if not to introduce bits of underdeveloped writing to the air and let their skin thicken a bit?

it's just the beginning, a developmental drabble.  possibly a prologue.  but here is a bit on kiss like a bullet. 

copyrighted, of course.  but you wouldn't steal from me, would you?  WOULD YOU.