Carl’s Best Friend
Thirsty Work — Chapter 11: on six legs
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9 min readJan 31, 2021
Two young women from California travel to New Orleans in search of redemption after the death of their mother. Carolee thinks she will show her little sister the world, but what they find in the barrooms of the French Quarter at Mardi Gras is more than she knows how to handle, or could have imagined back home. This is the eleventh chapter of the novel Thirsty Work.