The Laughter of Strangers

'SUGAR' WILLEM FLOURES That's a name I built from the ground up. I wasn't the first to systematically climb the ranks, beating the sugar out of everyone I had known to be inferior, leaving only the sour taste of defeat, my claim forever being: "I am the greatest!" I can still hear it now. In the silence of this locker room, blood drying on my face, I can still hear those words. And I was. I was the greatest. JAB LEFT HOOK JAB LEFT HOOK RIGHT HOOK JAB STRAIGHT TO THE BODY: JAB JAB POWER SHOT STRAIGHT POWER SHOT STRAIGHT UPPERCUT And then a voice says, "'Sugar'... you are no longer sweet with the science."