Charlie's Children by Prabir Mitra - Thriller - A little boy is sold to a bar owner by his young mother, for a pitcher of beer. The mother, who is an alcoholic and a crack junky, walks out of our story. The little boy never meets her again. For the next few years the boy lives in the beer hall, sharing the space with Jody - the buxom woman who owns the joint - and her ex-con boyfriend Eddie Noonan, helping out with odd jobs, cleaning tables, serving customers and stealing money from the till, from the customers, from wherever, whenever he can. It’s a wicked world of the rundown inner city Chicago Cabrini Green, where drugs, sex, violence rule the street.  115 pages - pdf, format 8)