Porkfat
Porkfat lives open-air near Hollywood Boulevard and treats grievance as permission. He is described through debt, low-rent glamour, violence, broken narration and the language of old songs and street myth.
Sour Annie
He meets Sour Annie crying in a diner and “turns” her out. The story later places her at Barbary Bay, then makes her the pretext for a fight between Porkfat and another derelict pimp.
Champagne Charlie
Champagne Charlie contests Porkfat's claim. Their argument becomes a witnessed street fight. Porkfat kills Charlie, inventories the corpse's half-bottle of cuvée and flask of Hennessy, kisses Annie, gives her cash and anticipates being gone for a while.
Bad memory as style
The narration repeatedly corrects names and premises—“Porkchop—no, Porkfat”—while freely borrowing the cadence of cultural memory. That instability makes the story feel simultaneously like eyewitness anecdote, corrupted song, pulp fiction and local legend.