My Arm Cries in Blood - Part I

My Arm Cries in Blood — Part IJake Stone is twenty-two years old, holding a diploma he earned on a delayed schedule, surrounded by no one. He is not lost in the romantic sense. He is lost in the way a person gets when they have spent years performing a version of themselves that never quite fit.What he walks into next — the bars, the loyalties, the violence, the people who become his gravity — is ...