Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    A Wake of Vultures
    A Wake of Vultures
    A Wake of Vultures
    Ebook38 pages36 minutes

    A Wake of Vultures

    By J. Lewis Celeste

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Follow Slaw and Shittin' as they take advantage of the destruction of Hurricane Katrina by looting scrap metal. See how two friends linked together by love and circumstance attempt to better their lives by seizing opportunity while others wait for deliverance. A poignant and moving tale of two souls bound together with tenderness and humanity where society would least expect it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ. Lewis Celeste
    Release dateJan 3, 2012
    ISBN9781466022966
    A Wake of Vultures
    Author

    J. Lewis Celeste

    J. Lewis Celeste is the author of the novel, “Gettin’ Paid,” along with several short stories and poems. He is a social commentator who encourages readers to question their opinions. J. Lewis Celeste challenges readers to evaluate their own beliefs, values, and perspectives. His writing focuses on core universal themes of the human condition.Contact: jlewisceleste@gmail.com

    Read more from J. Lewis Celeste

    Related to A Wake of Vultures

    Related ebooks

    General Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Two Poems

      May 1, 2019

      Kelly was having a fact-based daywhen all of a sudden she couldn’tlive like this anymore. Her home addresswas a streaming TV channel. Ads were growling at her,your outside is too large, your inside too small.She knew she wasn’t completely talented. B

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Year That Was...

      Dec 9, 2019

      The Year That Was...
      14 min read

    • Article

      February 2023 In brief

      Jan 29, 2023

      February 2023 In brief
      7 min read

    • Article

      A Heavy Heart

      Aug 18, 2020

      A Heavy Heart
      3 min read

    • Article

      Terlingua

      Dec 24, 2020

      Each fall, thousands of chili superfans from far and wide descend on this West Texas town for the famed Terlingua International Chili Championship. But the rest of the year, you’ll find a strange, far-out destination mixing artsy freedom with desert

      2 min read

    • Article

      Woke The Plank! Were Pirate Ships Actually Beacons Of Diversity And Democracy?

      Apr 4, 2023

      In September 1695, the Plymouth-born “king of pirates”, Henry Avery, seized treasure worth £600,000 (in today’s terms, nearly £100m) from the Grand Mughal fleet in the Red Sea. What happened next is uncertain. The most boring legend has Avery – AKA H

      6 min read

    • Article

      THE BATTLE FOR Kurrumbede

      Jul 21, 2019

      Ghosts shift soundlessly across drought-stricken paddocks. In abandoned slab huts, Doris Day smiles from an old magazine cover, and a gate leg table with barley twist legs lies in pieces on a broken floor. Desiccated umbrella grass tangles in stables

      9 min read

    • Article

      On Country

      Nov 9, 2016

      On Country
      5 min read

    • Article

      TV & RADIO

      Mar 9, 2021

      TV & RADIO
      3 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Aug 7, 2019

      Book Club
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Weird World Of Charles Waterton

      Sep 10, 2020

      Towards the end of his life, and, indeed, throughout most of it, Charles Waterton (1782–1865) was a terrifically strange man. Eschewing the high society that he was born into in favour of the company of birds and beasts, he was more often found dangl

      14 min read

    • Article

      Hibernation, Not Migration

      Jun 9, 2021

      LONG ago, we lived in Selborne, a Hampshire village famous for its massy graveyard yew, its beech hangers and the Revd Gilbert White, the first great English naturalist. One of the perks of life there was free access to his house, The Wakes, now a mu

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Bush Administration

      Oct 12, 2018

      The Bush Administration
      5 min read

    • Article

      Letter From The Founder

      Feb 10, 2022

      Letter From The Founder
      4 min read

    • Article

      MIND THE GAP A Gassy Jack Story

      Jun 4, 2021

      It’s difficult being in the middle of two things—like the proverbial rock and the hard place. My life is lived in that cleft, and I have found a way to be in this place. I’m constantly redefining what it means to live here. My family are born of tw

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Bush Administration

      Apr 25, 2017

      The Bush Administration
      5 min read

    • Article

      Fine and Dandy

      Mar 18, 2021

      Fine and Dandy
      3 min read

    • Article

      Unsung Icons: the Kreepy Krauly

      Jan 6, 2020

      Unsung Icons: the Kreepy Krauly
      3 min read

    • Article

      Getting a Handle

      Sep 25, 2019

      Getting a Handle
      4 min read

    • Article

      Not Everything Turns to Gold

      Oct 2, 2018

      Theodore Roosevelt once said, “When I am in California, I am not in the West, I am west of the West.” The Rough Rider’s koan has been widely viewed as a celebration of the limitless California adventure, but it’s also a reminder of the dizzying, vert

      4 min read

    • Article

      Native Nevada

      Jun 6, 2023

      Native Nevada
      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for A Wake of Vultures

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      A Wake of Vultures - J. Lewis Celeste

      A Wake of Vultures

      J. Lewis Celeste

      This story is a work of fiction. Other than factual locations like the city of New Orleans and the former Cleveland Joseph Peete Projects, etc., names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination and are used in this work fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Copyright © 2011 by J. Lewis Celeste

      All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

      Smashwords Edition.

      The photograph presented on the cover was taken by Mr. Charles Richard Clark II on December 28, 2009. The work is titled American Black Vulture in Puerto Lopez, Ecuador, the photograph was contributed to the public domain.

      Shelton Chestnut Fanning and Slaw Spokes were sipping rye and water in the back of Clyde’s Place after a nine hour day of ripping pipe out of a former residence on a former street in the aftermath of Katrina. They’d done well for their efforts, better than average and they averaged very well since Slaw saw opportunity in other’s misery. They knew it wouldn’t last forever; already the big companies were clearing neighborhoods faster than they could scour a house. But their circumstances were good in the now, and they were banking money.

      Shittin, youse a fuckin mess, Slaw said laughing.

      Shittin, forgotten as Shelton since early childhood cause his older brother shit on him so much the nickname stuck, winked at Slaw.

      I aint no kinda mess Slaw, jus admiring the view and forgot myself.

      Ha! Slaw quipped, you admire all you want Shittin, but you know Sheila won’t even spit your way, no matter. You could have it all, and you won’t, and still get no ass from her!

      Shittin had been staring at Sheila the bar maid when she bent over suddenly to pick up a napkin. She unknowingly rewarded his lustful eyes with an exclusive view of her plump round ass. She was completely unaware that he consummated their relationship in that brief moment; oblivious that he spilled his drink down the front of his shirt, jerked upright violently and knocked his chair over in the process. She aint notice none of it, but Slaw did and he was cackling like a madman. Sheila was also from around the way, and she knew Shittin & Slaw since grade school. Slaw was dead on. Sheila wouldn’t cast an amorous glance at Shittin even if he was the last dick walking. But Shittin craved that booty, has since the fifth grade, and in his mind she was his girl.

      It was getting late and it was time to get as the saying goes. Slaw was bone tired and Clyde might slide by any minute bitchin ‘bout his tab so he downed his bourbon and told Shittin they were out. They walked into another sticky night. Wet air licked by bullfrogs

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1