Curt McCarter - Tales

Curt McCarter

"Those bigshot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar." — Mickey Spillane

I’m a streetwalkin’ cheetah with a heart full of napalm. I’m a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb.

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