LIONFISH

Sheena told me good luck just before I walked in.

Aalyah did too, and I fucking felt it.

I walked into the casino with my chest puffed out, grabbed a craft beer from the cute girl with fishnets on, and walked into the Motor City Casino & Hotel game room.

Black hit 7 of the last 10 spins, and I played Red for every single one.

The Craps tables were all filled with ingrates and scummy men...

Red hit twice,

and Green hit, its only time all night, the spin after I played a 0-00 hedge combo.

I wanted to be a gambler.

I wanted to swear loudly with the grey hairs;

curse so loud that all the security cameras would all look at me...

They would see my stack of yellow chips with black writing.

My chips looked like bumble bees. Bee - like my dads nickname.

I was going to laugh with the slick middle eastern men standing across the table from me and the chain smoking black grandma who hadn't said a word since sitting at my table, but looked disgusted every time I would yelp with excitement or dispair.

I put chips on 3, 11, 25, 29, and 30... 30, meant nothing to me, but the monitor said it hadn't hit in over 250 spins, long before I got to this table.

Everything else I had went to Red or Odd.

Fuck Black and everything it had done to my stack.

I was up and playing with house money!

And fuck Evens... just fuck them!

Everything I had was on the Roulette board, and that little white ball landed on number 8, black, goddamnit.

This is Detroit, wy is the craps table full this early on a Tuesday night? Don't these people have better things to do?

I should have bet 8, I knew that. It was my baseball number that year I hit a baseball like a freaking pinata and over the left field fence.

If this place had a sports book, I bet I would have won...

The ACC doesn't match up against the Big10 this year.

Vinny Chase would have bet black.

I'm stealing some matchbooks and grabbing one more beer.

I have the best parking spot in the casino garage.

I bet someone would pay good money for it.

Good luck Sheena and Aalyah, Its early, but its time for me to go home.