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American ska.(Short story)

On the night of my tryout for Tony Serra and the Prophets, I had trouble finding the bar where the band practiced, a place called Jerry Z's on the Silas Deane Highway, lacated at the far end of some rundown strip mall that has long since been demolished. But when I came through the door, carrying my bass guitar in its black case like a machine gun, no one seemed to mind that I was an hour late. Tony Serra stood up from the booth, shook my hand and said, "Hey, man. Bring your amp?" He was a beefy Italian fellow, a couple of years older than me. He wore gas station overalls with his name stitched above the breast pocket, and he smelled like he'd been swimming in an unleaded sea. ...

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