{"id":38931,"date":"2025-05-18T16:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T20:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38931"},"modified":"2025-05-18T16:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T20:16:06","slug":"muscle-by-john-davies-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38931","title":{"rendered":"MUSCLE by John Davies \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4h2HVMr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z051825zview_muscle_john_davies.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4dnXkX7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MUSCLE<\/a> by John Davies<\/p>\n<p>First sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saturday night at the Hive was quieter than usual.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Frankie Collins is a legitimate tough guy.\u00a0 Everything he&#8217;s earned in life, including his reputation, he got because of his ability to fight.\u00a0 Frankie&#8217;s older now, but his reputation holds.\u00a0 Although Frankie has a business, he still works as a bouncer so folks know he hasn&#8217;t gotten soft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because of his reputation, there&#8217;s seldom trouble when Frankie&#8217;s at the door.\u00a0 So when a young wanna-be gangster gets crossways with Frankie, tension fills the air.\u00a0 The kid is cocky but no fool.\u00a0 Time passes.\u00a0 Bad looks turn to words.\u00a0 Then the kid does something that demands a response.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Frankie is surprised when the kid publicly challenges him to a street fight.\u00a0 No weapons, but anything else goes.\u00a0 Of course Frankie accepts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a few days they will fight.\u00a0 Frankie knows if the kid beats him, he&#8217;ll lose more than the fight.\u00a0 The kid is younger.\u00a0 Maybe stronger.\u00a0 Frankie starts to have doubts.\u00a0 Is he too old?\u00a0 Does he still have it in him?\u00a0 Frankie knows he will die before he would ever quit.\u00a0 And that would soon the kid just fine.<\/p>\n<p>++++<\/p>\n<p>MUSCLE is a lean mean novella.\u00a0 If you think you know how this one ends, think again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUSCLE by John Davies First sentence&#8230; Saturday night at the Hive was quieter than usual. The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38966,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38931\/revisions\/38966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}