Five-Minute fiction - 01:58-02:03
Patch felt there was a level of acceptable decorum, and none of these ruffians were living up to it. When a group of thugs jumped a solitary man leaving a public house one expected them to be well organized enough to at least get the lone man to the ground and deliver to him a sound thrashing. But these brutes, and Patch, hesitated to use the word as the men were nothing less than awful in their attempts at insinuating a physical altercation.
They had come at him from out of the shadows, and Patch suspected that had he consumed an ounce more alcohol they would probably have gotten the best of him and he would not be having these thoughts in regard to their relative natures as dark-alley thugs. But the men had made a considerable racket as they emerged, clearly a result of their own partaking of alcoholic libations before their evident decision to accost a number of lonesome individuals. Patch decided he wasnt going to enjoy the altercation, he so rarely did these days. Normally the physical challenge between two, or in some cases more, men was a pursuit he enjoyed. The raw physical sensation of besting another men was exhilarating and left him without the need to partake in any of the other destructive pursuits he so enjoyed.
Patch felt there was a level of acceptable decorum, and none of these ruffians were living up to it. When a group of thugs jumped a solitary man leaving a public house one expected them to be well organized enough to at least get the lone man to the ground and deliver to him a sound thrashing. But these brutes, and Patch, hesitated to use the word as the men were nothing less than awful in their attempts at insinuating a physical altercation.
They had come at him from out of the shadows, and Patch suspected that had he consumed an ounce more alcohol they would probably have gotten the best of him and he would not be having these thoughts in regard to their relative natures as dark-alley thugs. But the men had made a considerable racket as they emerged, clearly a result of their own partaking of alcoholic libations before their evident decision to accost a number of lonesome individuals. Patch decided he wasnt going to enjoy the altercation, he so rarely did these days. Normally the physical challenge between two, or in some cases more, men was a pursuit he enjoyed. The raw physical sensation of besting another men was exhilarating and left him without the need to partake in any of the other destructive pursuits he so enjoyed.