THE JUKEBOX Part 2

“Simple Man” – Lynyrd Skynyrd https://cms.sofrep.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/The-Jukebox-Pt2-Simple-Man.mp3

Marcus spent the week trying to reach Bobby Ames. Three calls, two voicemails, one Friday night trip to McGarvey’s, where Coltrane just shook his head.

“Bobby’s being a bastard this week. Try again next Friday. He’ll show…or he won’t.”

So, Marcus moved on to Slot 112, partly because “Simple Man” kept getting stuck in his head, and partly because the name in the notebook, Specialist David Nguyen, 2019, had a phone number next to it with a note: Ask for Sergeant Riley at the VA.

Turned out Sergeant Riley was now Nurse Riley, and she agreed to meet him at a Waffle House off Bragg Boulevard on her lunch break.

She looked exactly like someone who’d seen too

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