Sloan, Nevada fluttered like the emerald frond of a sago palm.

They put on music best suited for the middle of the night in the middle of the afternoon.  This made the room, already quite small, feel even smaller.

A dangerous alto sax shook the walls.  Each note dripped a dark promise of imminent despair.  The kind which struck him as unavoidable.

A tall woman with pale skin handed him a Coors Banquet.  In a few minutes, the  lemon-striped wallpaper in the saloon in  Sloan, Nevada began to wobble.