The Delta Star

The Delta StarThe Bad Czech was really cranky. He had an awful headache. The base of his skull hurt, both temples hurt and the top of his head, where his heavy black hair was parted by a cord of white scar (compliments of an N.V.A. mortar fragment at Khe Sanh), hurt most of all. Even his eyebrows seemed to hurt. There was nothing like the central city, growling and farting and belching forth a pall of smoke and pollution, for intensifying an already brutal hangover. The Bad Czech lurched along h...