THE KING ATLASBetaA WORLD BETWEEN STORIESSingle-book characters / Named cast
6 named character entries recorded in The Fifth Step. Open a snippet for the book’s wording.
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… and the next time he met his friend Alex (another retiree) for lunch, he’d have something interesting to talk about. “Okay, go for it.” Jack reached into the pouch of his hoodie, took out a piece of paper, and unfolded it. “When I was in fourth grade—” “If this is …
Glenn Ferguson, that boy I beat up in the fourth grade. How good it felt, like squeezing the pus out of an infected boil.
Possible aliases: Jamieson
… Harold Jamieson, once Chief Engineer of New York City’s Sanitation Department, enjoyed retirement. He knew from his small circle of friends that some didn’t, so he considered himself lucky. He had an acre of garden in upper Manhattan that he shared with several like-minded horticulturalists, he had discovered Netflix, and …
“You can call me Jack, that’s good enough. We don’t use last names in the program.” Jamieson knew that, too. Lots of people on the Netflix shows had alcohol problems. “So what can I do for you, Jack?”
Possible aliases: Wretched Ralph
Ralph, his name was, only I thought of him as Wretched Ralph. Kids can be cruel. For all I know, he’s dead and I helped kill him.” “Don’t get carried away,” Jamieson said. “I’m sure you have stuff to feel guilty about without having to invent a bunch of might-have-beens.”
This guy—Randy’s his name—said he didn’t give a shit. He told me to get down on my knees every morning and ask this God I didn’t believe in to help me stay sober another day.