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A red Monte Carlo noses down Blue Island Avenue and Billy knows there’s no version of tomorrow where he walks away the same. Memory hits first—Sunday sauce, laughter stretched thin, a name that chills a kitchen—then the nightwork begins. Pilsen turns into a living map of alley mouths, bar shifts, and weak garage locks. Billy studies Kiko Delgado’s swagger, Mickey Torres’s noise, and the prideful way that car parks nose-out like it’s daring someone. Watching becomes deciding.
Before patience turns into action, Billy calls on Frank Calebrese—not for forgiveness, just weather. The sanction comes clean: no speeches, no umbrellas for the other side, and no illusions about what this buys back. You don’t get Janey back. You don’t get your mother back. You do get ownership of the lives you end. From threads and hinges to a quiet Tuesday alley, Billy moves moves in the shadows, ever closer to crossing his Rubicon—forced to choose whether he can live with the ledger, or be swallowed by it.
Subscribe to receive new episodes (roughly) every first and third Thursday, and share with a friend who loves gritty, character-driven crime fiction… Also, don’t forget to leave a review to tell us: where do you draw the line between justice and correction?
The full novel is available, in full, on Amazon.com - just search for Drew Glass. You can also find a Buy Now button and learn more about the book and the author at https://www.drewglass.net/.
Interested in stories about loyalty, love, friendship, crime, and the bonds that shape a lifetime? Check out The Make-Right Man: A Chicago Reckoning, the debut novel by Drew Glass, a sweeping four-decade Chicago saga set in the Bridgeport neighborhood of the city's South Side. Visit the author's website - DrewGlass.net - to learn more and sample the first few chapters. Or go directly to Amazon.com
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© Drew Zagorski. All rights reserved.
Published under the pen name Drew Glass.
The Make Right Man: A Chicago Reckoning is a work of fiction and part of You Don’t Say… Stories from the Drew Zagorski Files, produced by LeftBrainRightBrain Studios.
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A red Monte Carlo noses down Blue Island Avenue and Billy knows there’s no version of tomorrow where he walks away the same. Memory hits first—Sunday sauce, laughter stretched thin, a name that chills a kitchen—then the nightwork begins. Pilsen turns into a living map of alley mouths, bar shifts, and weak garage locks. Billy studies Kiko Delgado’s swagger, Mickey Torres’s noise, and the prideful way that car parks nose-out like it’s daring someone. Watching becomes deciding.
Before patience turns into action, Billy calls on Frank Calebrese—not for forgiveness, just weather. The sanction comes clean: no speeches, no umbrellas for the other side, and no illusions about what this buys back. You don’t get Janey back. You don’t get your mother back. You do get ownership of the lives you end. From threads and hinges to a quiet Tuesday alley, Billy moves moves in the shadows, ever closer to crossing his Rubicon—forced to choose whether he can live with the ledger, or be swallowed by it.
Subscribe to receive new episodes (roughly) every first and third Thursday, and share with a friend who loves gritty, character-driven crime fiction… Also, don’t forget to leave a review to tell us: where do you draw the line between justice and correction?
The full novel is available, in full, on Amazon.com - just search for Drew Glass. You can also find a Buy Now button and learn more about the book and the author at https://www.drewglass.net/.
Interested in stories about loyalty, love, friendship, crime, and the bonds that shape a lifetime? Check out The Make-Right Man: A Chicago Reckoning, the debut novel by Drew Glass, a sweeping four-decade Chicago saga set in the Bridgeport neighborhood of the city's South Side. Visit the author's website - DrewGlass.net - to learn more and sample the first few chapters. Or go directly to Amazon.com
- Support You Don't Say via Venmo or PayPal
- Follow us! | Instagram | Linkedin
© Drew Zagorski. All rights reserved.
Published under the pen name Drew Glass.
The Make Right Man: A Chicago Reckoning is a work of fiction and part of You Don’t Say… Stories from the Drew Zagorski Files, produced by LeftBrainRightBrain Studios.