Iris on Laundry Day
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Iris on Laundry Day

About the Book

As found in the Louisiana Wonderland, this is the story of Iris who is red and rosy and soft everywhere from her hair to her fuzzy slippers to the heart and her sleeve, and Frank, who has a head full of spiders and a broken watch in his inside coat pocket. They live in your town, probably. Perhaps you can find them in that juke joint under the railroad bridge off Eight Street. It's a tale of love and drugs and more drugs amongst the lost twenty-somethings in the lure and blur oflife on the Strip.

About the Author

Frank Trautman
Frank Trautman

Francis Trautman resides in the Carl Family Motor Lodge in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, and also for long periods in the backseat of his '73 Chevy Impala. "Graveyard Frank" is currently working on his next project, a travel guide to East St. Louis, as well, as a script for an episode of NBC's "Watching Ellie." Please do not inform him that the program has been cancelled. He holds degrees in Semiotics and Forensic Entomology, both at the Mail Order University of Toledo, Ohio, in addition to an honorary PhD from the Businessmen's Association of Greater Baton Rouge. In his spare time, Frank enjoys his collection of porcelain unicorn and velvet pain tings of clowns [Not the sad ones!], and his turn-offs are legal action and girls who won't commit. His advice to young writers?: "Hop a bus. Join a cult. Kill a vagrant. It's just great literature. Period."

This is his story. Part of it. Probably.

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE: FRIDAY, PARTY AT JEANNE’S  2

CHAPTER 1: DOWN IN A RAT-HOLE   8

CHAPTER 2: POOL AND BEERS  18

CHAPTER 3: A RAUCOUS PLACE AND A LONG TALE29

CHAPTER 4: A BAD HABIT AND A LITTLE BILL   48

CHAPTER 5: ADVICE FROM ATOP A CATERPILLAR  59

CHAPTER 6: PANE AND PEPPER75

CHAPTER 7: A SAD THC PARTY89

CHAPTER 8: THE QUEEN’S KARAOKE GROUND101

CHAPTER 9: A SHELL-SHOCKED STORY     121

CHAPTER 10: THE HIPSTER QUADRILLE    136

CHAPTER 11:  WHO STOLE HER HEART?    151

CHAPTER 12: IRIS’ ALLEGIANCE    162

EPILOGUE: THE BAR ON SUNDAY MORNING

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