Margold Meets the Tattoo Artist

Chapter 10


That afternoon he went back to the bar and talked to the bartender about the tattoo. The bartender told him that it was not a shop on the street, but an “underground” place where they did the best work in town. That was okay with Margold, so long as he didn’t catch anything. No problem, the bartender assured him.
He led Margold down the street and around the corner to a door without any kind of markings. The bartender knocked, someone looked out a little opening in the door, then let them in. The person led them to the top of a dark stairway into another door. There was a

Margold Completes the Peyote Ceremony

     He started to row toward the large ship. At first the water was calm, but after a few minutes large waves came up, tossing the little row boat around violently. He could no longer see the large ship, but rode up and down on huge waves. At the crest of each wave he could look over the side of the row boat and see down to the trough of the wave, seemingly hundreds of feet below him. He knew from experience that he easily became seasick, but because he was sitting down the effects were