To Billy's way of thinking, adulthood meant paperwork, lots of coffee and little sleep and he was having none of it.

Hilda was obsessed with genealogy and had traced her family so far back there wasn't anyone she met who she wasn't somehow related to.

The old couple, who ruled their social circle with a tight fist, threw the town into a tizzy by moving to Florida.

Their lives were lies and their dreams were dead.

Romeo was tired of Juliete bitching about his empty beer cans littering the living room.

Billy's inner life could easily be summed up by the phrases found on his T-shirts.

After the rap game died for Ike he returned to the thug life, having invested in drugs and prostitution during his semi-legitimate stint in the square world.