James Bang sat swaying weakly on the bus. Fugazi’s End Hits thundered through his headphones. He fell into Ian MacKaye’s voice, hard-edged and poetic at the same time, and the melodic leading bass lines. As he fell, he kept a cagey eye on the green street signs floating past him on the bus window’s horizon. He watched the names, stickered in day-glo reflective lettering, flashing white-hot light back at him in the shapes of: Albion, Ash, Birch, Bellaire, Clermont… The alphabet lent itself well to James’ knowledge of the city and his new livelihood. And that, now after his mother’s suicide, was reluctant drug dealing. Notes for (working title) THE ROUTE: James Bang runs drugs and stays off the grid by only riding buses. Time/chapters should chronologically pass using bus schedules and landmarks. When James stumbles onto a secret stash of the sticky-icky, he becomes embroiled in a race against competing governments to develop low pollution, high power-yield fuel. Other dealers on THE ROUTE: The Baker The Commander (shut-in WOW stoner) People on buses: The guy in the cat suit The guy who eats grass The eco-slut biker girl The yuppie The chronic masturbater The punker The two weird goth girls The old woman without any teeth and an oxygen tank