Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch.

“I wished I had a friend in the Quarter, someone like Charlotte. Someone I could…”

“Look at you, locked and loaded, like Mae West of the Motor City.”

“It went on. Each lie I told required another to thicken the paste over the prev…”

“The words tasted sour. I agreed with Patrick. In New Orleans, sometimes death d…”