You Don't Say...
Stories from the Drew Zagorski Files - Some stories are just worth telling... In You Don't Say, you'll get a mix of documentary, commentary, history - straight and sometimes with a twist, and well, just great stories - single episode and serial stories to help you escape the real world. There's a little something here for everyone. You Don't Say... (youdontsay.net) is a production of LeftBrainRightBrain Marketing (lbrbm.com).
You Don't Say...
Ep. 1 - Billy Shitpants Lives – 7 Mouths, 16 Legs – and The Making of Billy Shitpants
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Larry Karpinski, Karp, comes back to Bridgeport telling himself he’s just passing through, maybe closing a loop. That’s the lie guys use when they don’t want to admit they miss a place. But neighborhoods like that don’t do casual visits. The streets remember you whether you’re ready or not. And Billy’s still there — right where you’d expect — like time took a swing at him and missed. Seeing him again isn’t nostalgia. It’s a reminder that some people never put the old rules down, even when the rest of the world pretends they expired.
Billy Szczepanek didn’t grow up in a quiet house. It was loud, crowded, full of people learning early how to stand their ground or get stepped over. Love was there, sure — just not the gentle kind. Somewhere along the way, all that pressure had to come out, and one day it did. A moment that should’ve ended clean didn’t, and a name was born. Not as a joke. Not as a dare. Just something that stuck. Episode One traces how a kid from a packed house became the kind of man people whispered about — and how carrying a name like Billy Shitpants was never about fear… it was about whether you could carry the weight and keep walking.
The full novel is available, in full, on Amazon.com - just search for Drew Glass. You can also find a Buy Now button and learn more about the book and the author at https://www.drewglass.net/.
Interested in stories about loyalty, love, friendship, crime, and the bonds that shape a lifetime? Check out The Make-Right Man: A Chicago Reckoning, the debut novel by Drew Glass, a sweeping four-decade Chicago saga set in the Bridgeport neighborhood of the city's South Side. Visit the author's website - DrewGlass.net - to learn more and sample the first few chapters. Or go directly to Amazon.com
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Published under the pen name Drew Glass.
The Make Right Man: A Chicago Reckoning is a work of fiction and part of You Don’t Say… Stories from the Drew Zagorski Files, produced by LeftBrainRightBrain Studios.
No transcript available. The novel is available, in full, on Amazon.com - just search for Drew Glass. You can also find a Buy Now button and learn more about the book and the author at https://www.drewglass.net/.