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SWITCHBLADE TRAVIS

  PART ONE: WELCOME TO THE WEST The Wild West. The Statue of Cowboys and cattle. Everything had become modernized. Once- small towns had been turned into big, raging cities. General stores became corporate shopping  malls. Cafes and diners transformed into fast food restaurants and big-name burger joints. Ranch homes were changed into busy neighborhoods. Hardworking farms and ranches were destroyed in the name of change and corruption. This was the case for ninety-nine percent of the United States of America. Ever since the nineteen-sixties had come and gone, the country lifestyle had been in a state of danger. It had become like an endangered animal, barely surviving and rarely thriving. Some places were safe from the cement skyscrapers and office jobs, but some was not enough in most places. People always said that social hierarchies disappear, but it seemed as if the citified kingdoms were too strong for in-debt farms and failing crops. Places that had been thriving with ca...

The House Always Wins

                                  Chapter One: The Big Bust Rain poured down in the poorly lit streets of 1960s Dockington. Cars went by with headlights on and horns honking. Everything was normal until it happened. Cars pulled over. The rain ceased to exist. The single street light flickered as a wave of sirens went by. Rainwater was thrust to the side of the road as police cars sped to the house. The light of the streetlamp was replaced for a couple of seconds by the lights and sirens of the cars. Everyone in town knew where they were headed: to the Lestima house. This house was owned by the infamous Giuseppe Lestima and his crime family. It was shocking, mostly since no one had heard from the Lestimas in years. The main reason everyone was shocked was that the police knew of the illegal gambling system for months and did not do anything about it until now. This was a big breakthrough in the ending of...