"Until Gwen," a short story by Dennis Lehane, starts out, "Your father picks you up from prison in a stolen Dodge Neon, with an 8-ball of coke in the glove compartment and a hooker named Mandy in the back seat." This got my attention. Told in second person, it is the story of a man without an identity with a villian for a father and a race for an elusive diamond. Short stories do not get any better than this. And like "Mystic River" and "Shutter Island," this Lehane story is also being made into a movie. It is only like 20 pages so even if you don't like to read, i recommend checking it out.
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