The Absinthe Smuggler

Alright. Here's what happened.

A teenager on a family holiday in Madrid promises his friends two bottles of the green fairy. A cab driver knows the one shop that sells the real thing, the old shopkeeper wants cash and no questions, and customs turns out to be the easy part.

Back home, at Cam's basement party, the bottles come out. What follows involves a Mexican gunslinger costume, a strip club, a stolen car, Central Park and a subway tunnel, and he remembers almost none of it.

A short, fast and very stupid comedy by Kristopher Mallory, first published on Stealth Fiction in 2006.