Chapter 74

I will type this one and then be caught up again. Herman Kim takes Hugo into his little office and starts to undress?? (and there are porn magazines in the room) He says he does not know who Hugo is and is having trouble figuring out who he is. Hugo gets nervous but says he would like to tell Herman Kim a story that he might like, adn Herman Kim seems about to do something scary if he does not like the story.

Chapter 73

Now Herman Kim takes Hugo upstairs in the fish shop where the secret things go on. He shows Hugo around and there are curtains and a bar and a pretty receptionist/secretary. Herman tells him this is where Feddema Global does all its secret things. Hugo gets excited to be there but first Herman wants to question him because he does not know enough about HUgo.

Chapter 72

O.K. this chapter is still on the page so I don't have to resort to memory......whcih I guess is awful, I learned! In this one Hugo arrives at the fish house as instructed by Alberta in HR. We learn that on his way there he was bitten by some kind of insect or worm?? And on it is a note from somebody or something called RUSTIC INDUSTRIES which I don't remember seeing before but now I do not trust myself! It is a warning note from Rustic Industries.

At the fish shop Hugo says the code word and talks to HERMAN KIM who says he will orientate him about working at the fish house.

Chapter 71

Ack!!! They changed the Chokeville site so now there is three chapters on the page at once but I forgot to type up one (this one, Chapter 71) and it went off the site before I could!! I thought I would have lots of time but did not. I'll try to remember what happens in this one but it was a while ago that I read it so if anyone remembers it better please just comment me or email me and I will update this section. I am sorry!

I remember that is is about SAL'S FISH HOUSE and lcukily nothing much big happens (I think??) and its just history or details about the Fish House. And how it is just a front for illegal things for Feddema Global? And one guy (Sal) gets really into pretending he runs a fish house and then after actually DOES run a fish shop because he is so good at it? Folks I do not know what else happens in this chapter.

Chapter 70

Hugo has to go see ALBERTA in Human Resources. She tells him that he is not an employee of Feddema Global anymore but now works at SAL'S FISH HOUSE and he is supposed to go report there to someone named HERMAN at the piers and to not come back here. She gives him this information by handing him pre-printed cards when she then burns up in a little incinerator. We also learn that Alberta also works at the library as a library clown.

Chapter 69

Hugo and Hogwild meet Glenndenning in his office. Glenndenning is still dealing with problems that Hugo caused the day before. Hogwild apologizes for the whole thing but Glenndenning says it's his fault and he never should have taken Hogwild's advice in the first place. Then he says he wanted Hugo to quietly look for the paper and not cause a big commotion, but now he sees that causing commotions is what Hugo is good at. So now that everyone is trying to find the Document because they know GLendenning wants it, Glenndenning wants Hugo to distract them by causing commotions while Glenndenning has another person quietly looking for the document. I think??? But then Glenndenning tells him he no longer works for Feddema Global??

Chapter 68

While on the train, somebody tries to pick Hugo's pocket. Hugo knows all the tricks and avoids losing anything, but when he tries to ID the pickpocket the man is too anonymous to remember, and he gets away. Meanwhile we hear about how Hugo's family was always traveling when he was little, and he learned all kinds of survival skills along the way. Then there is a little scene describing Hugo's family being trapped in a jungle pit but it is written like a Hardy Boys story?

Chapter 67

Hugo and Hogwild are taking the train to work. We get a lot of details about the train system, the murals painted on the trains, and how some trains are scheduled to be on the same track at around the same time, which scares the commuters.

Chapter 66

Back at Hogwild's apartment, Hugo explains that his dream vision was telling him to look for the person who threw the Document out the window instead of the actual document. Hugo asks Hogwild who it was that threw the paper but he doesn't want to talk about it. Finally Hugo wears him down and he says her name was MARGARET BALL.

Chapter 65

Now we're with Allison, who is on an airstrip in Texas. She has been chasing all over trying to find Hugo, and has been checking unidentified bodies because she figures he is dead by now. She followed a lead to this landing strip where a plane brings frozen dead bodies to be delivered to medical schools and whatnot. The men working there give her a hard time. She checks the bodies but does not find Hugo.

Chapter 64

Hugo wakes up in Hogwild's apartment. I think he and Hogwild got drunk again at The Embers the night before but this scene is not in the book or I missed it. We hear about Hugo's dream where he's listening to music with the topless girl-who-will-remain-nameless. He sees a woman's hand throwing the Document out the window and Hugo decides this dream was an important vision.

Chapter 63

It is the next morning, and Hogwild is waking up in his apartment. We hear about the dream he was having and his morning routine. Hugo is asleep on his floor and he thinks about how Hugo wasn't fired and regretting ever bringing Hugo to his job because he bets Glenndenning has something special for him to do.

Chapter 62

This whole chapter is just James GLenndenning ranting and raving about all the problems Hugo caused by going on the radio and putting the flyers up with the reward. And how nobody's found the Document yet and now the whole city knows that he's looking for something valuable. Hugo and Hogwild assume Hugo is fired, but then Glenndenning says that he'll see Hugo at work the next morning.

Chapter 61

There is chaos at Feddema Global, where a lot of people have shown up to claim the reward for finding the paper. Hugo comes in and Hogwild grabs him, taking him to see Mr. Glenndenning. Hugo wants to know if he is in trouble for causing a commotion and Hogwild says he's not sure but to be careful because he heard that Glenndenning shot the person who threw the file out the window.

Chapter 60

Hugo gets off the airship and heads back to Feddema Global. Then it starts raining at 4:30, like Birch predicted. A huge storm comes in and all of Hugo's flyers go flying everywhere and Hugo feels defeated.

Chapter 59

More airship touring. We learn a little about the city that was crushed when La Garra fell out of the sky on top of it. Hugo feels dumb because he thought getting a bird'seye-view of the city would help him find the Document. He is mad at himself for thinking he could find the paper, which is impossible to find.

Chapter 58

Hugo takes an air tour around the city on an airship, which is a kind of boat attached to a blimp. The pilot is a girl named JUNIE WOOLFORD who is working on a comic book about a woman who has the power to kill everything on the planet in an instant, but chooses not to.

Chapter 57

Hugo talks to Tom Mott about making a flyer asking if people have seen the missing document. Tom Mott tells Hugo he better put a specific reward on the flyer or noone will care, so Hugo says the reward is $12,000. They make up a bunch of copies and Tom Mott shows Hugo the secret back exit. Hugo leaves. He puts his flyers all over town and we learn some more about the different parts of the city.

Chapter 56

Hugo comes running into a print shop, being chased by a local gang (did I miss a chapter???). The print shop is owned by TOM MOTT who stands up to the gang, led by a man named BOX. Tom Mott seems to know Box and has told him before to not come around here. Evidently Tom Mott slept with Box's ladyfriend and scared her off in the past?? So Box and his gang leave. This chapter is confusing.

Chapter 55

The police throw Hugo out of the radio building, and he takes a bus to the part of town where Birch thought the wind would blow the Document. This is a scary part of town called BUTTERFLY. Hugo walks around and checks every piece of paper he can find. A truck pulls over and a woman wearing a black mask talks to him. This is CHINA SWEET (who was mentioned before in the scene where Allison is attacked by throwing stars) who says if he's searching for something, she might be able to help because she searches for lost girls. Hugo says he is looking for a piece of paper and she says she'll look for it. Then she shows him how to make a deadly throwing star out of a piece of paper.

Chapter 54

Hugo goes back downstairs to where they broadcast the news over the radio. Hugo asks if he can make an announcement over the radio and the weatherman pins him down and calls for security. The weatherman gets in a fight with another radio announcer. In the commotion Hugo sneaks into the radio booth and makes his announcement about a document missing that is very important and everyone should keep an eye out for it because there is a big reward.

Chapter 53

Back to the scene with Hugo talking to the radio weather man, who tells him to talk to BIRCH if he wants to know about weather stuff. Hugo is directed to the roof of the radio building where he encounters Birch. Birch tells him it is going to rain at 4:30 but Hugo is more interested in the weather on the day when the file was thrown out of James Glendenning's window. Birch tells him what direction the wind would've blown the papers that day. The point (I think) is that Birch controls the weather? He again says that it's going to rain this afternoon because he doesn't want to go to his son's soccer game.

Chapter 52

There are several mentions of someone called "the girl who shall remain nameless" who is I think an old girlfriend of Hugo. This chapter is a conversation between them from a few years ago. He is talking about an album that he is making by recording all sorts of sounds and editing them together to tell a story about nomads looking for a sound they can't identify. But he has been working on it for two years and only has 10 minutes done so far.

Chapter 51

Hugo decides to listen to Hogwild and make a detailed plan for looking for the "document". He gets shoes and medication for his hand and face, and then makes phone calls. He wonders for a second if there was a funeral for him back in his hometown. Then he goes to the radio station to talk to a weatherman.

Chapter 50

This is a flashback to when Hugo and his sister Allison were six. They stay at their grandparents house which gets flooded all the time and the ocean is now right off the back porch. Offshore there is a big tree that seems mystical and unreachable. But Allison decides to swim out to it. Hugo tries to talk her out of it but she goes anyway, and then disappears under the water. Hugo swims after her but can't find her and decides to just float and let fate carry him where it will. He finds her and drags her back to the house. We hear some about the special twin language they speak in each otehr's minds.

Chapter 49

Hogwild and Hugo eat breakfast, and Hugo explains what happened at The Clutch. Hugo explains that he tried to let the universe guide him to the missing paper and that didn't work. Hogwild says you should always have a detailed plan and not let fate make decisions for you or else you will get beaten by life.

Chapter 48

It is morning. The city is described as looking ugly in the morning. We hear about CHA-CHA'S, the cafeteria in the building where Hogwild (and Hugo now?) work, and the owner PAULO BARRETTO and how Cha-Cha was the woman he loved back in Chile even though she was trouble for sleeping with prisoners and having some kind of surgical attachment installed on her private parts. Hogwild is in the restaurant eating breakfast when he sees Hugo come in, all beat up and bandaged.

Chapter 47

Hugo stays the night in The Clutch, taken care of by the woman with the slow talk who is DELFINA. They are staying in "The Holler" where they keep a mechanical bull-type machine which has some sort of sexual function for the patrons. Delfina tells Hugo that it's not good being in debt to Son Hillers, and that Son Hillers knew Hugo was coming today. Then someone named SENOR DEUCE comes in and has sex with the machine.

Chapter 46

Hugo comes to on the card table. Everyone is gone but the hand, who talks to him through Morse code. Hugo finds he can't see. The hand tells him he took all of Hugo's debts from the card game and now Hugo owes him $12,000. Hugo panics because he doesn't have any money but the hand says it is OK, he just wants Hugo in his debt. The hand says that he is from "Fort Black" and that Hugo will help save Fort Black.

Chapter 45

Hugo is playing cards at random and somehow winning money. Blue Eye gets mad and stabs a knife down between Hugo's fingers. Blue Eye says he has the "garrotte" card. Hugo doesn't know what that means and Blue Eye sees that as Hugo challenging him. Blue Eye tells a story about another game when someone challenged his garrotte card and he stabbed him with broken glass and then showed him a picture of his son with his eyes cut up. Then he cuts up Hugo's hand and jumps on him and punches him in the eyes.

Chapter 44

Finally we are back to the card game. Hugo is given $500 to play with by Son Hillers. Hugo tries to explain that he doesn't know how to play but everyone thinks he is trying to trick them. THe players threaten each other. It is revealed that Blue Eye had a detective follow Malquiades to learn about her weaknesses so he could beat her at the card game. But it turns out that Malquiades knew about it and threatened him and told him to tell Blue Eye bad information. Hugo tries to lose the game so he can leave.

Chapter 43

More about the card game, this time talking about a special card called the "garrotte card". This card is a wild card that lets you change any rule in the game. But the card is only imaginary and if you play it, you have to convince the other players that you really have it. In olden days this meant telling a nice story about where you got it, but nowadays is about scaring the other players with violence. The invention of this card is told in a pirate flashback.

Chapter 42

This chapter goes over all the details of how to play Carrick. It is extremely complicated because the rules are always changing depending on the time of day or the season or the like.

Chapter 41

In the back room a card game is going on. There is a bald black man and a busty lady at the table. And at the head of the table is a severed hand in a kind of glass case. The hand taps against the glass in Morse Code to communicate. The hand taps against the glass and tells the black man to leave so Hugo can take his place at the game. We learn about the black man who is called THE BORING KID. BLUE EYE (the man with the sapphire in his eye) also sits at the table. MALQUIADES is the busty woman. Hugo calls himself ICEWATER HULL (I think Hull is his real last name). The slow talking woman turns on a machine so when the hand taps Morse Code what he's saying is typed out on a machine (for people who do not know Morse Code I guess??) The hand is called SON HILLERS. He greets Hugo and says they're going to play a card game called CARRICK.

Chapter 40

They go inside the building which is dark and small. Hugo meets a man with a sapphire in his eye socket. He talks about losing his eye and other things. Hugo doesn't know what he is talking about and neither do I. He shows Hugo a picture of something and Hugo throws up because it shows something so terrible. Then there is a flash-forward (?) where Hugo is talking to Little Vickers (the baby from the first chapter??) and talking about the worst thing he ever saw. Then in the present-day the slow talking woman brings Hugo into a back room.

Chapter 39

Hugo goes to the address on the flyer. SIDE NOTE: We hear about "Old La Garra" which is also known as FORT BLACK and also known as CHOKEVILLE. This is the only time I remember seeing either of those names so far. Anyway Hugo goes to THE CLUTCH which is in a bad neighborhood. He is greeted by a woman who talks slow and she invites him into the shop (?).

Chapter 38

Hugo goes out of the building and looks at all the paper that's in the city. He is looking for something on Feddema Global stationery but does not know exactly what. He worries that he'll never find the paper. He thinks his sister would be very technical and methodical about it but that is not his style. He remembers a kid he knew who did a kind of meditation that connects you to "the universe". Hugo does this and breathes and opens his eyes and sees a paper on the ground but it is not the paper he wants but a flyer for something called "The Clutch".

Chapter 37

I guess the point of KLF Manz is that he knows Hugo (or will meet him in the future??) and did one of his memory experiments on Hugo? So, this chapter shows what Hugo was thinking about after his interview with James Glenndenning in the bathroom??? Hugo thinks about getting this new job and feeling important and being an adult. In high school he would make money by tape-recording things secretly and selling the tapes. He wants to find the paper and impress the boss. Then Hugo fantasizes about going to college?? And I think jerks off in the bathroom???

Chapter 36

Now for some reason we hear all about someone named K.L.F. MANZ. He lives in a mansion and has robots for friends. A long time ago he discovered his little daughter had killed herself with arsenic and went crazy and burned down his house. Then he was crazy for a while, then he had his mansion built. THen he invents some kind of machine that lets him experience other people's memories. He experience's his daughter's memories and learns that she killed herself so she could be with her mother, who died while giving birth to her.

Chapter 35

More interview. Hugo talks about his sound machine that drove everyone crazy at his high school. He got the idea from a government test in Viet Nam (?) where soldiers went crazy killing each other. Glenndenning mentions that ever since the paper problem he's had all paper removed from his office and now just talks to hidden microphones to remember things or give messages. Hugo gets excited by this because he loved recording thigns and wants to get involved but Glenndenning says just go and find "The Document". I guess Hugo is hired to work there now?

Chapter 34

The interview goes on. Glenndenning tries to give Hugo a quiz or test but Hugo instead tries to get into the head of the missing document. He says he will find it and he likes taking on projects that other people have failed to accomplish.

Chapter 33

Glenndenning interviews Hugo, trying to see if he is a troublemaker. Then he talks about "The Document". An employee got in a fight with Glenndenning and then threw a very important file out the window. Glenndenning had task forces run around the city to find the missing papers and they were all found but for one. This is "The Document" which is very important to Glenndenning but he does not say why or what it is. But he wants someone to keep looking for it who is cheap, and this is why Hogwild brought Hugo in to his office today.

Chapter 32

We are introduced to Hogwild's boss JAMES GLENNDENNING. His office doesn't have much in it. He has white hair and a big chest (man chest). Hogwild again says Hugo is the answer to their problems, and they talk about the problem being "The Document" which is missing. Glenndenning wants to know if Hugo is good at finding missing documents and he says yes. Glenndenning tells Hogwild to leave while he talks to Hugo and Hogwild is disappointed that he has to leave.

Chapter 31

Hugo is waiting outside to meet Hogwild's big boss. He thinks about giving himself a new name. MEANWHILE: This is a scene with Hugo's sister Allison. She is at a motel and gets a phone number from a carrier pigeon, and is then attacked with throwing stars by someone named CHINA SWEET.

Back to Hugo and Hogwild, HOgwild goes into the boss's office and tries to give his speech but the boss keeps interrupting. Finally Hugo just goes right into the office and introduces himself as RED.

Chapter 30

I think this chapter is a quote from Hogwild's notes where he is writing a speech for how he's going to introduce Hugo to someone named MR. GLENDENNING. He talks about some problem the company is having and that Hugo may be able to solve it. When did he write this speech???

Chapter 29

Now we're on the top floor of the building. There is a courtyard there but it is closed off by bulletproof glass. The employees don't know how to get in there but everyone has theories about why it was there or what they should do about it. We hear about all the different theories.

Chapter 28

Howgild's company is called FEDDEMA GLOBAL and is in the CRITERION BUILDING. Hogwild brings Hugo up to where he works, which is a room full of booths and cables. Inside the booth is a desk and chair and a large phone. You can turn on fake sound effects to pretend you are calling from somewhere else but what Hogwild does or Feddema Global does isn't clear.

Chapter 27

Hugo is waiting at Hogwild's office the next morning. Before this he cleaned up at the train station and was threatened by someone in the bathroom with a musket. He is homesick for the first time. Hogwild comes in and flirts with the receptionist. Hogwild is surprised to see Hugo since he had forgotten all about the night before. Then he remembers and tells Hugo to be at his best because Hogwild is vouching for him and Hugo gets mad at his attitude.

Chapter 26

Hugo is passed out at Board Street Station, the big train station of La Garra where he is sleeping for the night. He is awakened by a little girl. She says there was a big rain storm a while back and it caused a piece of the train station ceiling to fall on her head. She asks him for candy but he doesn't have any, so she leaves.

Chapter 25

Now we are back at the bar with Hogwild and Hugo. Hugo explains that his machine transmittes a sound that drives people crazy, and he made the machine himself. Hogwild is angry that he got kicked out of school for being creative and doing an extra-credit project. Hogwild gets an idea and says Hugo should come to his office in the morning.

Chapter 24

This is a flashback scene to four months ago, at RINGLEY HIGH SCHOOL. It is a regular school day until everyone starts feeling funny. They are filled with depression and anger. Students and teachers start freaking out and running out or fighting each other. Some kids throw up. The daughter of the mayor (DELIA MUTO) became demented. One teacher runs to the basement and finds Hugo playing a noise on a machine that is lower than human ears can hear.

Chapter 23

Hugo and Hogwild are getting drunk. Hogwild explains he is wooing other ladies not just the security guard. He asks Hugo where he's from and he says FORTALIA. Hugo says he got in trouble back home because of a science project. Hogwild wants to know the story. Hugo says he will tell him but he has to keep it a secret. Hogwild tries to cut his finger so they can be blood brothers but it doesn't work.

Chapter 22

Now we hear a little more about the Embers. Estra Maxie, who was one of the onlookers when Hugo was being interrogated by the police man, is the bartender. She has a pistol. There is a board with the drink menu on it and lights next to the drinks that are available. There is a secret back room called "the mizzen". You call on a phone at your booth to place an order.

Chapter 21

This chapter takes place at the bar called The Embers, though you don't know that until the next chapter. It is just Hugo and Hogwild talking. Hugo is trying to explain what happened with the security guard and that he has no chance. Hogwild says that is all part of the plan. Hugo says he tried to talk her into it and this makes Hogwild upset because that was not part of the plan.

Chapter 20

Hugo takes the letter to the security guard at the bank. She is very hostile and already knows it's from Hogwild and doesn't want it. Hugo tries to convince her that maybe Hogwild is "the one". The security says her "the one" would not be a scary stalker and she alerts the other guards and Hugo runs away.

Chapter 19

Hugo meets HOGWILD on the street corner. Hogwild is taller then Hugo (Hugo is above-average tall). He thinks Hugo is homeless and asks him to deliver a letter in return for wine. Hugo is suspicious but Hogwild explains he is wooing a security guard at the bank and this is part of a big wooing process. Hugo agrees and Hogwild says to meet him at the bar when he is done, even though Hugo is underage.

Chapter 18

Hugo goes into the financial district of the city and looks around. NOTE: he has no shoes, he has been barefoot this whole time so far. There is a poem about the city that I can't quote here. Hugo thinks about making some shoes out of newspapers but can't find any.

Chapter 17

This is mostly Hugo walking into the city. Again it is mentioned that there was a floating city in the sky but then fell down here near the beach, and now that is La Garra where Hugo is walking to. There is a promenade and a giant house with a mysterious figure pacing on the balcony. Hugo thinks about how Cynthia saw him on the TV news and wonders who else saw him. He does not remember being filmed for the news or remember much of anything after getting beat up on the beach. Hugo wishes he had a disguise. He thinks about how he had sex with Cynthia Fiechter.

Chapter 16

Hugo says there's something at the other end of the chain that he would like to have, but he is not sure how to retrieve it since its heavy and at the bottom of the ocean. Then he thinks about someone called THE MAYOR and a murder this person did?

Kiepper says he will stay and guard the chain while Hugo goes and figures out how to get whatever is in the ocean. Kiepper says he's quitting his job at the dairy (Kiepper works at a company called Folly Dairy) and just going to sit and wait, because that is his destiny.

Chapter 15

Kiepper realizes that chooping the chain was not the sword's ultimate destiny and is upset. He has to still carry the burden. He throws the sword in the ocean but knows he will see it again. Hugo buys him a popsicle.

Chapter 14

Kiepper becomes haunted by the sword's bloody history and feels compelled to carry it around with him and hack everything he sees apart. He talks to a phone sex operator. He ends up on the beach, walking towards a group of people, afraid that the sword will make him kill them all but unable to stop, like he is possesed. He walks up and chops Hugo's chain, freeing him.

Chapter 13

The history of the Harmattan, a legendary sword that can cut through just about everything. It all starts in the Middle East or the Sahara Desert, ends up in a biotechnology firm, stolen by an employee and then thrown out a window into a vegetable vendor who gives the sword to his grandsom KIEPPER FRICO on his deathbed. Kiepper takes the sword with him to college, then to La Garra.

Chapter 12

This chapter lists the times Hugo has been to La Garra in the past. One time was a school field trip to see a one-act show. Another time was a field trip to the La Garra Museum of Natural History, where the science teacher takes the class to the basement where they keep unsorted things. The teacher finds a skull in a little cage, and he shakes the cage and the skull screams. He tells the story of this Frenchman in olden times who would bite off people's fingers so they put a cage around his head. But he could still bite little children's fingers and he bit off the fingers of a dignatary's daughter. The dignatary chops off his head and keeps the caged head as a trophy back home even though it screams all the time.

Another time he and some friends went to a strip club for somebody's birthday. Then one time he and his twin sister went there so he could by an expensive microphone and they were both scared by the city. We also hear about MIDNITE THRENODY, a pirate radio broadcast (?) that has become a popular show in the area (I think??)

Chapter 11

Hugo is still chained up, so he follows his chain which goes all the way back to the beach where it all started. He piles up all the chain and sits on it. NOTE: He had this chain attached all the time while he was taken to the hospital and everything?? And then to Cynthia's house?

A guy comes along selling frozen liquor popsicles. He and Hugo talk about ways he could get this chain off his leg. Hugo asks where he is and the man says LA GARRA. Hugo realizes he's only 20 miles away from his home and feels stupid.

Chapter 10

Hugo leaves Cynthia's house and tries to figure out where he is. He put back on the suit he was wearing when he washed up on shore. This suit was his dead grandfather's and we learn that sometimes his grandfather communicates to him through the suit. His grandfather tells him to make a plan and get on with it.

Chapter 9

Back in the present day, Hugo and Cynthia Fiechter have just had sex. Cynthia is upset because now she realizes Hugo is not her dead son after all. Cynthia says he is nothing like Andrew Fiechter and that he should leave immediately, and Hugo leaves. He thinks about his family back home and his twin sister ALLISON is mentioned for the first time. He wonders if they wonder where he is.

Chapter 8

We learn the woman's name is CYNTHIA FIECHTER and she had seen Hugo on the TV news weeks ago when he was rescued from the beach. She screams and rushes to the hospital where he's being held, thinking he is her long-lost son.

Then we hear about her son ANDREW FIECHTER who hated her and joined the Navy and then died in a submarine accident.

Cynthia yells at all the doctors because she thinks Hugo is her son. One doctor feels bad and falls for her womanly charms. He releases Hugo into her custody even though he knows he's not. SPECULATION: Hugo has no ID on him.

Chapter 7

The person who heard his crying on the baby monitor is a woman and she comes running in. She is very concerned and relieved to see that he is awake and OK. She tells him he was at the hospital for three weeks. Hugo remembers being underwater and the woman says he had been in a submarine. Now Hugo is even more confused now because he knows he was never on a submarine in his life.

The woman is very happy Hugo is alive and she takes off her shirt and holds him to her bosom. This makes Hugo think about the time his ex-girlfriend took off her shirt in his bedroom. Hugo decides to "go with the flow".

Chapter 6

We discover that Hugo has been unconscious for three weeks and hear about some of his dreams during that time, and get a psychologist's interpretation of the dreams. Hugo finally wakes up and finds himself in a little attic room. He assumes he is dead and in the afterlife until he sees the chain still around his ankle. He begins to cry and someone hears his crying on a baby monitor sitting next to his bed.

Chapter 5

I guess Hugo passed out again at the end of the last chapter, and then wakes up again but this time in the forest near the beach. Then he passes out AGAIN. Then we hear a conversation between some guys who are looking at him and pulling him away from the beach and forest and seeing the chain around his ankle is still coming out of the ocean with no end in sight.

Then Hugo is awake and being questioned by a police man. We learn more about the policeman: His name is JACK KENYON and he was hired by the sheriff to help patrol the streets. Jack Kenyon was dating the sheriff's daughter but then they broke up and the sheriff felt bad about it. Jack Kenyon wears a policeman's uniform from a costume place even though he was asked not to wear it.

We get a summary of the people who are crowded around Hugo, including ESTRA MAXIE who appears later. Jack Kenyon shakes Hugo's hand and he screams and passes out yet again. NOTE: Someone named BEE THIBAUT is also mentioned and said that we will hear more about her late but so far we have not.

Chapter 4

Big Vickers beats up Hugo. Then a strange thunderstorm comes out of nowhere and makes Big Vickers and everyone else on the beach run away. Hugo just stands back up and the rain doesn't seem to touch him??? It's not clear what's happening.

Chapter 3

Back to the main story, with BIG VICKERS, the father of Little Vickers the baby, hearing her crying and coming running to beat up Hugo. He thinks Hugo is a zombie because of how he looks, and Big Vickers remembers the time his mother thought his dead father had come from beyond the grave to leave phone messages for her, asking if she was cheating on him.

Chapter 2

This chapter is actually just one paragraph talking about the beach where Hugo landed, named Wood Beach. In olden times the beach was actually made of wood instead of sand, and then a city in the sky fell on it and broke up the wood until it was like sand. This is not really even a chapter.

Chapter 1

I have been asked to not quote anything from the story directly and I don't know if that includes even the chapter titles so I will just number them. Chapter 1 begins with a young man named HUGO washing up on a beach. (I think later we know that he is 17-18 years old?) He is unconscious and there is a chain attached to his ankle that goes back into the ocean (Atlantic? Pacific??).

A baby named LITTLE VICKERS finds Hugo and pokes him with a stick. Hugo wakes up and throws up and the baby screams. Hugo is very confused until he notices the chain, which reminds him of something.

This Is Fort Black

This site will be notes and discussion of Chokeville, an online novel I've been trying to read.

My first project will be writing up a plot summary of the story so far. The person writing it is Joshua Allen and he is only making the latest chapter available online, and this is a pain because sometimes I'll miss a chapter and then have no idea what was going on.

I wrote him and asked if he could be less frustrating with this. He wrote me back and said "I will give you access to the archives for six hours". I'm not sure why 6 hours but I went there and copied everything to my computer....I bet he's happy about that!!

Now I'm going to write up a summary of each chapter and people can come here and try to figure out what's going on or see if they missed anything, and I will keep updating my blog as new chapters appear.