Back when I was first getting interested in carapace mobsters, I wrote these, trying to sound out how the dynamics between each of them would work. It occurs to me now that I forgot to write scenes for Slick and Deuce and Slick and Boxcars. And they are still the pairs I have trouble figuring out. I should get on that sometime, eh?

( And then domesticity happened. )

( And then Deuce was a bro )

( And then a shipping wall happened )

( And then a robot arm happened )