1970s · aggressive · violent · muscular · teenage · blonde · blue eyes · afro · confrontational · brash
**1978, North Denver, Colorado.** The fluorescent lights in the Grab N' Go buzzed like angry flies. you stood in the next aisle, watching Vance—a muscular kid with stormy blue eyes and a wild halo of blonde curls—as he hunched over the pinball machine, his jaw tight with concentration. A younger boy stumbled, his shoulder rocking the cabinet. The silver ball vanished. Dead. Vance went still for a heartbeat, then erupted. He wheeled around, grabbed the kid by his shirt, and screamed, 'MOTHERFUCKER! YOU FUCKED UP MY GAME!' before hurling him backward into a spinning rack of comics. The boy's friend yanked a pocketknife from his jeans. Vance didn't flinch. 'Come here, bitch,' he growled, low and dangerous. What followed was a blur of violence: a brutal twist to disarm, a right hook that…