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Nick Adams Reads!
by Nick Adams
I am an introverted Gen X'r with a lack of social media. I have written most of my life but never once put anything out there for anyone to read. I love all animals, especially the strays and I have a black-belt in shit talking. To me only a few things really matter in the world, among them being truth, love and liberty, robots, aliens and zombies. My recording sound is very rusty and southern but that will improve with time (except the southern...that's here to stay). I hope you enjoy these stories. Thank you for tuning in. Check me out on Wattpad https://www.wattpad.com/user/NickAdams68
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Welcome to the Podcast Nick Adams Reads!
Thank you so much for giving this humble podcast a listen. I will just post a little about me to get you started, interested or dis-interested. I am an introverted Gen X'r. I'm not really on social media, because well, the introvert thing. I have written most of my life but never once put…
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The Last JoyRide FOREWORD
"Life's the same I'm moving in Stereo Life's the same except for my shoes Life's the same you're shakin' like tremolo Life's the same it's all inside you" Moving in Stereo The Cars FRIDAY 7:40 AM If you ask any guy my age what he thinks about when he hears that song he will probably answer with...
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The Last JoyRide PART 1
Winter was in its dying throes when I finally had enough of the malaise and decided the best way to live was just to do just that, live. I couldn't get Sofi out of my mind. I was eating myself alive with jealousy, worry and more than anything sadness. I had never been so close to someone only to...
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The Last Joyride Part 2
I had finally drifted off and sleep came in the usual fits. I couldn't get comfortable, too hot then too cold, rolling and thrashing all night I was exhausted but I was glad the alarm had gone off when it did. I practically leapt from the bed and while coffee was brewing I logged into the Mac and...
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The Last JoyRide Part 3.
Monday 1:50 PM By Monday afternoon I had changed my mind about the letter, and decided just to tell my manager in person, but I printed it and took it with me just in case. I had been trying to catch her all morning and was going to give it one more go before I went to lunch. No luck. I took it...
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The Last JoyRide Part 4.
Monday 3:40 PM I took the stairs the rest of the way out of the building, softly laughing the whole way. I laughed even harder as I burst through the front doors for the last time and ran out into the parking lot where my chair rested on it's side among tiny fragments of tempered glass. I jumped...
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The Last JoyRide. Part 5
"I'm Joy." she said and put one black leather booted foot on the running board and reached out across the roof to shake my hand. "The name's Bond, James Bond," I quipped stupidly, taking her hand. She didn't care, didn't laugh, didn't even break character. She had a firm grip for small hands. We...
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The Last JoyRide Part 6.
TUESDAY 9:50 AM It wasn't even ten o'clock and I already had a mental boner! That hadn't happened in a while. I never once had a job that I liked as much on the first day. I still had no idea what I was going to get paid and at that point I didn't even really care. Whatever it was it would be…
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The Last JoyRide Part 7.
TUESDAY 11:20AM "It's funny really. You wouldn't have recognized me a year ago." She pulled the Jeep carefully out into the narrow street and through an old neighborhood heading toward the square. "Oh yeah?" "Look," she said, putting her small black purse on the console between us, rummaging…
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The Last JoyRide Part 8
Tuesday 1:20 pm "Okay," she said bashfully. "Do you want me to explain it to you or do you just want to see it?" "Oh no, I want you to explain it. Like why are they where they are in here." "Okay," she shrugged and walked past her corrugated walled office and pushed back a heavy black curtain...
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The Last JoyRide Part 9
I had waited outside while Joy made the arrangements in the bank's repossession office. She had been less than ten minutes, largely she said because she had pre-bonded the car. In essence she had paid the note on the car. The bank agreed to a standard length of time before they would declare the...
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The Last JoyRide Part 10
Tuesday 5:45 PM No real surprise the Maserati was pulled to the curb first. Joy casually moved to the car and as she passed the valet holding the door for her she smiled softly and mouthed the words 'thank you.' She took the driver's seat and he closed the door for her. She handed him a ten…
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The Last JoyRide Part 11
Wednesday 3:06 AM Nick had managed to fall asleep on the futon without too much effort. He did not stir nor wake all night save the one visit to the bathroom. He used that opportunity to check on Joy too. He moved quietly in his sock feet into her bedroom and peeked. She had shifted but was...
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The Last JoyRide Part 12
Wednesday 9:22 AM I put my worry, anxiety and tension as best I could to the back of my mind. It was best considering the time I had left to just cleanup the rest of my belongings and pack them in the camper and Cruiser. It didn't take too long. A few more phone calls to the local utilities…
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The Last JoyRide Part 13
Wednesday 4:30pm Joy had parked in the pay as you stay parking deck on the same block as the Atlanta Four Season's Hotel. She was nervous, and that was a trait I had yet to see. She insisted we stop at a bar for a drink. I couldn't believe it. "You sure that's a good idea, you don't hold your...
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The Last JoyRide Part 14
Wednesday 5:35PM I entered the bar at the right of the posh Four Seasons Hotel, The Park 75 Lounge and immediately saw the back of Joy's head at a table against the far wall near the kitchen. I motioned to the suited hostess and she smiled as I passed. I sucked in my stomach and walked as…
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The Last JoyRide Part 15
Wednesday 7:30PM Joy was silent as we walked to the Jeep. She was deep in thought as usual and even from the short time I had known her I knew talking to her when she was in that state was pointless. She drove. As she merged onto the intestate my stomach let out a growl that competed with the...
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The Last JoyRide Part 16
Wednesday 8:13PM Joy ordered Asian pear sangrias for the both of us. In fact she ordered our food, appetizers and everything. I don't know why I was surprised. I say that because I didn't know her that well. She sure as hell could take initiative though. The way she handled that Hollywood wanker...
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The Last JoyRide Part 17
Wednesday 10:22PM Two Moscow mules and Joy was ready to leave. She practically pulled me out the door. I was not in any shape to drive myself and she offered no resistance to walking. She was fairly quiet on the walk back to the warehouse but held my hand the whole way. It was pleasant, natural…
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The Last JoyRide Part 18
Thursday 6:20 AM I woke up with a splitting headache. It wasn’t the alcohol either, probably the stress. I never did to well internally under stress. On the outside I was one cool cucumber but on the inside I had a tangled web of nerves and every one of them red hot wired into my brain. I lay…
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The Last JoyRide Part 19
Thursday 7:18pm. I sat in my trailer and drank Stoli’s straight from the bottle, alternating between that and Ocean Spray cranberry which I too drank straight from the bottle. The overhead air-conditioning unit was humming along nicely cooling me off making the turkey and provolone sub sandwich…
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The Last JoyRide Part 20
Thursday 8:40PM Joy took the familiar route back through the little hidden industrial park and through the old neighborhood to the freeway. For the first time I think I realized why she chose the warehouse spot. It worked so well. In only a matter of moments you could access one of the busiest...
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The Last JoyRide PART 21
Thursday 11:20 PM She started the Jeep, and we pulled away. "Joy, we've never discussed anything like this but seeing those planets like that," I paused, searching for words. "It was like I was looking at God's clockwork first hand." She glanced at me, half smiling. "I felt small, tiny, but…
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The Last JoyRide PART 22
Friday 7:35 AM I woke from a dead sleep dreaming the cat was crying for food. I bolted upright in the bed, but Henry had taken up refuge with Joy. The sly devil was probably comfortable on the end of her bed. I lay back for a moment, still exhausted from the day before. I reached for my phone but...
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The Last JoyRide Part 23
Friday 9:40AM "Okay, Nick, these bike shops are at best managed Chinese fire drills. They're all the same, everyone's a character, everyone's got a damn story they want to tell, and everyone's a big shot. We know Mystic didn't drop the bike off himself, at least, I doubt it. But, maybe he does...
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The Last JoyRide Part 24
Friday 11:15 AM She was still on the bike when I pulled up to the garage and opened the door. She tip-toed the Ducati inside as I closed the door behind her. "No kickstand," she said, handing me her helmet. "We can't just stand it up against a wall; these damn things tend to walk, and if one of...
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The Last JoyRide Part 25
Friday 1:52 PM Maybe it was jealousy, just perhaps. I honestly didn’t like seeing Joy with another fellow, but I knew she was in character. I guess the problem was that I was always infatuated with her characters too. Damnit, this was getting complicated. I quit the pretend call and walked to…
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The Last Joyride Part 26
Friday 3:47PM “Joy, we have to talk about this. I can’t believe how out of control this job has gotten. I’m actually ashamed of myself.” I was sitting at her kitchen table. She had the overhead light on and dragged a floor lamp from her bedroom for even better light. She was unbandaging my neck...
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The Last JoyRide Part 27
Friday 5:15PM I had only been in the hot water for a minute it seemed letting my mind drift away in whiskey soaked thoughts. I found the bar of soap in the built in dish on the wall and started washing my arms. I heard the glass door open and then felt Joy’s warm embrace from behind, her arms…
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The Last JoyRide Part 28
Friday 10:42 PM The return trip home and the computer work Joy did had proven successful, so the night would be a little longer than I had hoped. Even after the food, I was exhausted and readily admitted that I was looking forward to persuading her to bed, even if only to hold her body close for…
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The Last JoyRide Part 29
Saturday 2:28 AM Joy never left me; she simply laid on top of me, nestled her head into the nape of my neck, and went to sleep. It wasn’t until my shoulder blades began to go numb that I had to move her. I held her tight and simply shifted to the right, gently rolling her off onto the cool…
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The Last JoyRide Part 30
Saturday 8:17 AM I approached the table cautiously, more cautiously than I expected myself to do, hearing all that was running through my mind. Sasha looked up at me; first, her ice-blue eyes scanned me up and down as she listened to whatever Joy was saying. Then I resumed my seat next to Joy…
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The Last JoyRide Part 31
Saturday 10:22AM I followed along in the little Maserati. It was cute and quick and smelled like a cheerleader, but I didn’t fit in the damn thing. I couldn’t figure out how to turn on the air conditioner, so I just had the windows down, which caused the wind to buffet something terrible. Still…
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The Last JoyRide Part 32.
Saturday 4:10PM I was tense but relaxing on Joy’s couch when I heard the growling V8 of the Corvette outside. She gave a few impatient blasts of the horn before I could open the roll-up door. As soon as I had it up enough to clear the car, she shot inside and skidded to a stop. “Check this out,”...
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The Last JoyRide Part 33
I managed to get the Mickey back into Alabaster’s hands on the third round of drinks. He downed it during our conversation on acoustics and soundproofing. Too bad he was such a creepy fuck because he was intelligent and interesting. It took half an hour for the drink to take effect. By then, I…
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The Last JoyRide Part 34
Saturday 8:08 PM After checking out the Eddie VanHalen in earnest, I fetched some clean clothes out of my camper, took another quick, hot shower, and rested on the bed under the air conditioning, waiting for Joy to return. I must have dozed off, and I’m not sure what woke me, but when I checked…
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The Last JoyRide Part 35
Saturday 10:44 PM I pulled my phone from my pocket and walked toward the hideous gleaming blueish purple car resting nearly on the parking lot surface itself. I cut between the parked cars and ducked a little, so I would not draw the attention of the lot attendants. I crouched and waited for Joy…
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The Last JoyRide Part 36
Saturday 11:24 PM I thought I would puke when I saw the Dre lunge forward. The unseen driver stopped suddenly, then the car began to elevate, the front left side first, then the rear, again it lurched forward but stopped again. Sparks flew off the undercarriage in every direction for a moment. By...
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The Last JoyRide Part 37
You know I can smell bull-shit a quarter-mile away if you know me. Whatever the hell it was, that stink of over-doused God-awful cologne should have been what sent me running for cover, but it didn’t. No, just another foul smell coming from somewhere, like sweet sewage. I paid no attention as I...
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The Last JoyRide Part 38
Monday 7:08AM I felt like I was falling, one of those dreams where you step off your front porch, usually six to eight inches down but in your dreams, it's like you step off the edge of Everest. It's just how I felt. Scary too, it wouldn't stop, like I was never going to hit bottom, then I did…
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The Last JoyRide Part 39
Monday 6:14 PM I opened my eyes again. It felt like it had been an eternity since I had them closed. They burned a little. It was one of those wake-ups where your brain is stuck in neutral. My surroundings were totally unfamiliar. As I glanced around slowly, nothing made sense. For split seconds…
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The Last JoyRide Part 40
Monday 10:28 PM It was the cleanest garage I had ever seen. It was empty, of course, with no cars in there at all; no grease, oil, or coolant, no hint of any automobile ever being in there. The floor was brick and sealed. The three heavy wooden garage doors all had blackout curtains secured in...
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The Last JoyRide Part 41
Monday 11:12 PM Wolf was listening intently, his hands clasped in front of him. It didn’t look like it was going his way, but who knows? I had been in tight spots, too, where I thought for sure I was circling the drain, yet there I stood, more experienced but probably none the wiser. One damn…
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The Last JoyRide Part 42
Monday 11:52 PM Sasha had climbed into a wide comfortable chair sitting across Mystic, who was quietly smoking what could have been a stylishly small cigar and admiring the Peart. Two similar chairs and an oval table between them were set up as if to purposefully admire the English gentleman’s…
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The Last JoyRide Part 43
Tuesday 3:44 AM Joy pulled over on the first side street we came to once we had driven comfortably away from the scene. She switched off the ignition and stared out the windshield for a second. “You with me?” I asked. She paused a moment longer, then smiled. “Damn, Nick, yes, just letting it sink...
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The Last JoyRide Part 43 CONCLUSION
Saturday 9:08 AM I was so excited about the newer Cruiser! It was fantastic, drove, smelled, and handled great; it was all I had ever wanted in a Cruiser. I dearly loved my old gray heap, but it would serve someone else better than it would serve me to be doing the kind of traveling I was…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
I am an introverted Gen X'r with a lack of social media. I have written most of my life but never once put anything out there for anyone to read. I love all animals, especially the strays and I have a black-belt in shit talking. To me only a few things really matter in the world, among them being truth, love and liberty, robots, aliens and zombies. My recording sound is very rusty and southern but that will improve with time (except the southern...that's here to stay). I hope you enjoy these stories. Thank you for tuning in. Check me out on Wattpad https://www.wattpad.com/user/NickAdams68
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