A spoonful of the past

He had received the most lavish praises, and he had harvested the nastiest curses.
He was a guy whose every vein pulsed with defiance.
He was a white boy who could never become a celebrity.
He was a youth from the countryside in the eyes of the masses.
He was Tommy Hawk.
He had been reborn.
Welcome to the story that tells of the American Dream in the first half and the American nightmare in the second.
Let's invite Tommy Hawk to take the stage, in the winter of 2022.

America 1982

Dorothy watched as the other party left, "Goodbye, Victim Number Two."


Accompanied by his fitness coach and bodyguard, Tommy continued his decades-long routine of morning runs. Bodyguard John handed him the phone, "Sir, Justice Farrell is on the line."


"Odelia?" Tommy stopped in his tracks and asked as he took the phone.


"It's over. I just went to the community management center to complain. I suggested they should introduce a new community regulation forbidding ugly* old women who have failed in body management from scaring people during morning runs," Tommy said, holding the phone and scanning his surroundings as he spoke to Odelia.


On the other end of the line, Odelia replied helplessly, "What happened now? You bought half of Beverly Hills community, there should be no one left to bother you."


Chapter 3: Cue Retirement Ceremony_2