Level Up: The Knockout
by Dan Sugralinov and Max Lagno
Release - January 9, 2019
Pre-order now - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JH4Y38Y
Chapter One. The Hallucination.
“I used to be an adventurer like you.
Then I took an arrow in the knee.”
Skyrim
EVEN THOUGH Mike Björnstad Hagen was partly of Scandinavian
extraction, he resembled a Viking roughly the same way a Chihuahua resembles a
Great Dane. He had a variety of nicknames such as “Crybaby Mikey,” “Little Mikey,” “Mikey the Wimp,” or even “Hey, you cocksucker!” No one has ever referred to him as “Mr. Hagen.”
The only time it almost happened was during a visit to a bank Mike had visited once in hope of getting a
mortgage loan. “I'm so sorry, Mr. Hagen, but your loan
request has not been approved,” said
the man behind the counter without so much as trying to refrain from grinning smugly.
Mike would have smashed his face gladly if he only knew how to fight.
A home... A dream of a home of his own, one he
could share with little Jessie, was all that had kept him going for three years. Then
Jessica had deserted him for a trucker thug from
Arizona — or was it Texas? At that point, it
didn't really matter anymore.
