The scorched spine of the summer’s last heat wave snapped over the Motel Americana as the sun set, but theparking lot was still hot enough to fry a liver. Somehow it had fallen to Scalisi to show the Kid Morelli the ropes. In room 36, he told him:
Harry Johnson. Harry Wang. Just Wang. The little soldier. Willie. Captain Winkie. One eyed monster.
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Easily the oddest of Oscar’s tales to date, Lloyd Farberware, a regular tenant of the Motel Americana, is forced to sell his prized possession– a set of rare dominoes– in order to recover his Uncle Louie’s knee (really, his half leg).
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Talk radio personality and self-help guru Remy Danger checks into the Motel Americana during a stopover on his book signing tour. When a die-hard fan tracks him down and knocks on his motel door, Danger tries to give the kid what he thinks he wants, but Danger just might get more than he bargains for. You can’t just talk your way out of the Motel Americana.
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The solar storms are wreaking havoc across the country, but perhaps nowhere have they been felt as strongly as at the Motel Americana, where a troubled man called Lang has just checked in. Everywhere he turns he hears a mechanical voice– incessantly sputtering from TVs, droning on every radio station, spilling ceaselessly over the phone lines. He’s been trying to ignore it, but he can’t anymore. He finds that it’s been describing intimate details of his life, a life he may have misunderstood entirely.
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Emma stole her sister’s ID and check book to check in. She didn’t actually think it would work, but the cute kid behind the desk didn’t seem much like he gave a crap one way or another, so suddenly there she was, trying to ignore the bellied up cockroach on the bathroom tile, not knowing what to do with herself next. (more…)
The Motel Americana is a real place. Its name is a fake. All the names you’ll hear, in fact, have been changed, but changed not in order to protect the innocent, and not even to protect the assortment of guilty, ridiculous,desperate, murderous, murdered, maimed, love struck, marginalized and/or woefully tragic lodgers about whom these odd and lovely stories are told, but to protect me, yours truly, Jack Same.
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Jack describes how Oscar’s notebooks and surveillance audio recordings, the source material for this podcast, came into his possession one sweet summer morning in the mid 1980’s. This is the account of Jack’s first and only contact with Oscar and his beautiful sister, Mandy.
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