Dr. Feelgood
They call this Jimmy's town.
Hidden Tracks is a series of stories inspired by songs that meant something when I was the right age to let them all the way in. Each one takes its title from a song and finds the fiction living inside it. You don’t need to know the songs. But if you do, I hope you feel what I felt in somebody’s basement a long time ago. Someone else understood.
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By the time I was fourteen, I knew three things about Orchard Street.
First, never buy meat from Ramos Market on a Tuesday.
Second, the cops on Bell Avenue only stopped cars if somebody higher up hadn’t been paid yet.
Third, if Rat-Tailed Jimmy offered to fix what hurt, you said no even when yes was the only word left in your mouth.
