What Happens In Reno by Mike Monson

Author:Mike Monson [Monson, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: All Due Respect Books
Published: 2015-09-20T17:00:00+00:00

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When he met Hunter Manning, Tanner Savage’s life was pretty much shit.

Out of high school for more than a year, he totally lacked focus and direction. He didn’t have the grades for any four-year college, and, even if he did, he hadn’t taken the SAT or the ACT or whatever freaking T all his friends had constantly talked about.

Never occurred to him to sign up for classes at Modesto Junior College. He passed by the place nearly every day and saw the people constantly teeming in and out, holding their books and their backpacks. But to him, it was a separate world, just another confusing part of the landscape.

His mother had never mentioned college. She was too busy working and eating and getting fat and working out and getting skinny again and dealing with dumbshit Matt and fucking any man who happened to come along. Molly Perkins, the college counselor at Davis High School, had made several appointments with him his junior year, but he never showed. Perkins tried to contact Lydia, but all her calls were unreturned. Perkins was busy with motivated students who had enthusiastic parents, and she gave up on Tanner Savage.

He’d tried a couple of jobs. First he was a busboy at the DoubleTree hotel. He never came back after his first break because he didn’t like the way the chefs and the servers yelled at him.

He worked at Ross Dress for Less for nearly two months before getting fired for punching assistant manager Lester Kemp in the face and breaking the cretin’s nose. Kemp had accused Tanner of stealing clothes and other store merchandise out the back door and dropping them into the trunk of his friend’s car. Kemp was right, but Tanner wanted to get in a good punch before getting fired. Kemp and the store decided not to press charges as long as he forfeited his last paycheck and never came back.

He still saw his primary job as watching over and protecting his mother. As early as elementary school, Tanner felt certain that Lydia made horrible choices, especially when it came to men.

Ralph Tilly, Lydia’s husband before Matt, came along after a string of useless boyfriends. These men were often heavy drinkers, and many of them physically abused Lydia. As Tanner became older and larger, he kept a close eye on these men and they often ended up with black eyes and busted bones.

Like Matt Hodges, Tilly drank constantly and rarely worked. He’d only beaten Lydia once, the night of Tanner’s fifteenth birthday party. When Tanner found out, he worked his stepfather over so severely the man spent a week in the hospital. Lydia finally got up the nerve to divorce Tilly, but he was heartbroken when she hooked up with Matt Hodges only a year later. His current stepfather was never violent or aggressive, but the dude was always drunk, and the couple never stopped arguing about money.

The only other thing Tanner cared about was fighting. He was always fascinated by violence and always the toughest boy in every school he attended.

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