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Sunday’s episode of Treme was written by Tom Piazza, and it was pretty rad. To celebrate, today’s Story of the Day features Piazza’s short fiction work, from the collection Blues and Trouble: Twelve Stories. In addition, his novel, City of Refuge, is one of the best written about New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. “Burn Me Up,” too, will stick to your gut:

“Fuck you. Fuck you. Stay the fuck out of my dressing room. I’m not the fucking janitor here, and I don’t want you the fuck in my dressing room.” Billy Sundown stopped hollering at the club owner for a moment as he opened the door to his dressing room and saw his younger sister, a middle-aged woman in a pink blazer that was too tight on her, sitting in a folding chair.