Robert Newton

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

Odd Man Out

Obsession (Hidden Room)

Snowbound

Temptation Harbour

The Green Cockatoo

Fade Out

The Fade Out
Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips
2014

Coming Off Shift #9

Terminal

Plunder Road

Atlantic City

Vicki

U Turn

Ashes and Diamonds

Goodfellas

Shack Out on 101

Reservoir Dogs

Out of the Past

Booth at the End

Fallen Angel

Pulp Fiction

The Hustler

Gap in His Dollars

In his room, he worked out where he's been
from the match books in his pocket,
the drinks by the gap in his dollars,
the hole in his life by his eyes in the broken mirror

from
The Long Take
Robin Robertson
2018

                        https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35659255-the-long-take?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=BBeum6nHoc&rank=1

Dark Femmes #20

Vicki Buckley - Human Desire

Fay Anderson - After Dark My Sweet

Rica - Thieves Highway

Suzanne Brown - Red Rock West

Rachael - Blade Runner

Lorna Roman - The Chase (1946)

Daphne Monet - Devil in a Blue Dress

Giovanna Bragana - Ossessione

Connie Sumner - Unfaithful (2002)

Freddy - Dial 119

Cathy - Un Flic

Lena Brandt - The Good German

Edna Garfoot - Get Carter (1971)

Lucia Harper - The Reckless Moment

Lynn Bracken - LA Confidential

Saeko - Pale Flower

Bridget Gregory - Last Seduction

To the Same Place

          He had been the same route too many times. He'd been there before, so double-damned often, and however you travelled - backward, forward, or walking on your hands - you always got to the same place.

The Grifters
Jim Thompson
1963

Shadowy Apartments #6

Hard Times

Walter Hill
1975

4 am

           Hear how lonely the radio is, as the voice talks on, and on, unanswered. Notice how futile is the nickel dropped in the jukebox by a customer. How it's music proves again that one's life is either too humdrum or too exciting, too empty or too full, too this too that.

Kenneth Fearing
excerpt from
4 am
(1944)

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